[kde-linux] KDE 3.2.1 after konstruct

[James Richard Tyrer]

Note that I CC'd this here to comment on it.  It appears that since I keep 
posting these same instructions on the support lists that Konstruct is very 
lacking in documentation.  In fact, what it actually needs is a HOWTO/Tutorial.

Please note that this user's errors are probably due to incorrectly 
following the very incomplete instructions that come with it.

I have never used Konstruct, so I don't think that I am the one to write 
the HOWTO/Tutorial.  I am, however, available to provide general technical 
information on how to install KDE from source on Linux if someone that has 
installed from Konstruct would consider writing the HOWTO/tutorial.

It would also be nice if the bugs in KDM that makes it install WRONG on 
Linux could be fixed.  It first adds redundant items to the PATH and then 
removes them.  Very odd.

In addition to the bug mentioned, the Xsession file is still not optimum 
for Linux.

James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> Michael S. Dunsavage wrote:
> 
>>
>> I used konstruct to compile kde 3.2.1 on Redhat 9.0
>>
>> KDE loads okay, for the most part.
>>
>> However,
>>
>>
>> When I click no the K-menu button under the All Applications heading 
>> it's empty and says No Entries grayed out.
>>
>> I cannot open Date and Time format to change the clock format to 24 
>> hour time
>>
>> I cannot open control cente from the little magnifying glass on the 
>> start bar
>>
>> running kcontrol from the konsole gets
>>  kio (KSycoca): Trying to open ksycoca from 
>> /var/tmp/kdecache-mikesd/ksycoca
>> kcontrol: WARNING: No K menu group with X-KDE-BaseGroup=settings found 
>> ! Defaulting to Settings/
>>
>> Using kmenuedit won't save any of the menus
> 
> 
> KMenuedit should save changes for the user account that opens it.
> 
>>
>> I have set exports in .bashrc
> 
> 
> Changes to the environment should be put in: profile, ~/.bash_profile, 
> or in a 'profile.d' script.  Since these are global settings they should 
> not be put in your user's $HOME files.
> 
>>
>>    export QTDIR=/usr/local/kde3.2.1
> 
> 
> Is this a TYPO?  Didn't you install Qt in: "/usr/local/qt-3.3.1/"?
> 
>>    export KDEDIR=/usr/local/kde3.2.1
>>    export KDEDIRS=/usr/local/kde3.2.1
>>    export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/kde3.2.1/lib
>>    export PATH=/usr/local/kde3.2.1/bin:$PATH
>>
>>    export KDEHOME=~/.kde
> 
> 
> I do not know if this is the problem but that is not the correct way to 
> set it up.  Linux/Bash specific instructions are to place two scripts 
> in: "/etc/profile.d/".  These must be root:root:544:
> 
> 
> kde.sh
> ------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<
> # KDE initialization script (sh)
>     
> KDEDIR="/usr/local/kde3.2.1"
> KDEHOME=$HOME/.kde
> PATH="$KDEDIR/bin:$PATH"
> KDEDIRS="/usr/local/kde3.2.1:/usr:/usr/local"
> 
> export KDEDIR KDEHOME PATH KDEDIRS
> 
> ------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<
> 
> qt.sh
> ------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<
> # Qt initialization script (sh)
> 
> QTDIR="/usr/local/qt-3.3.1"
> MANPATH=$QTDIR/doc/man:$MANPATH
> PATH="$QTDIR/bin:$PATH"
> 
> export QTDIR MANPATH PATH
> 
> ------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<
> 
> Your paths may be different, and please check to be sure that they are 
> correct.
> 
> You should NOT use: "LD_LIBRARY_PATH" on Linux except for SO overrides.
> 
> As root, add to: /etc/ld.so.conf:
> 
>     /usr/local/kde3.2.1/lib
>     /usr/local/qt-3.3.1/lib
> 
> If there are older versions of these in the file, be certain that the 
> newer ones are added ahead of them.
> 
> Then as root, execute: ldconfig.
> 
> You will have to restart KDE for these changes to take effect.
> 
> There is a bug (status WONTFIX) in KDM.  Your configuration file needs 
> to be edited [as root].  Open the file: "$KDEDIR/share/config/kdm/kdmrc"
> 
> These two lines in the: [X-*-Core] section should be as follows:
> 
> SystemPath=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin
> UserPath=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
> 
> Do not add any other additional PATH entries here.  Use a 'profile.d' 
> script.
> 
> Also note that: "/usr/X11R6/bin" should be added in: "/etc/profile" 
> {paths may vary}.

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JRT