[kde-freebsd] [Q] difficulties installing KDE4 on 8.0 RC1 amd64

[V S P]

Hello,
I have installed a fresh minimum distro of Freebsd 8.0 RC1 on amd64
(from a dvd iso).

Then I installed portupgrade package

and did 

portinstall kde4


that took two days (because it kept asking me in the dialogs for
compilation options on some packages -- and therefore it was not
an 'unattended' install).


I got the whole thing compiled and installed (completely).

The problem is that I want to use the freebsd to establish VPN
connection
to my work (via pptd)
I read that KDE's network subsystem allows to establish such thing.


However when I go to KDE 4 network it says that zeroconf
(mdnsd) server is not running.  I built and installed mdnsd using
portinstall mdnsd.
That however did not appear to do anything.  In otherwords, 
mdsnd still is not running at a startup (and I do not know how to make
it run at startup (I thought the installation process would do that))

When i just type mdnsd from the command line the process starts (because
I can see it with pgrep) but the network folders are still empty.


Furhtermore there is a place in the KDE settings to see the network,
and I when I click there it says your OS is not supported (and it gives
me a list of OSes where the latest one is FreeBSD 6).


I gave up sofar (I started friday early evening, and now sunday morning
I have to do login to work so I switched to my win partition).

I would like to ask if I am going in a generally correct direction, or
may
be using portinstall was wrong (the FreeBSD main site did not have kde
4.3 -- but the ports are at 4.3 -- also using the freebsd sysinstall
ports method always fails because perl version in there is earlier than
the one from the ports tree (which is what I have)).


If I am going in the right direction why things like 'paths' are not
added to the loging prompt, services are not started, kdm is not
insalled, kde networks apps are not setup?  is there another may be
sub-port that fixes all that?

thank you in advance for any help






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