Running KDE under Windows some problems

[Nicolas Pavlidis]

Hi!

Ralf Habacker wrote:
> Nicolas Pavlidis schrieb:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I'll hope now the posting to this list works :-)
>>
>> Yesterday I had some problems running KDE, than I found out that the
>> installers seams to miss the strigi dependency, 
> this is fixed on the download server

Ok.

>> ok
>> I installed the missing package and reallye the different applications
>> start up. If I srat up kdeinit / kde4.exe I'm left with a command window
>> that says, that some process is being created, well ok. But than nothing
>> happens.
>>   
> this is normal these applications does not produce any output. If you 
> like to have debug output install the dbgview tool.
>> Next, if I try to start up konqueror, at first I get the message, that
>> kabout_dialog.dll was not found, but Konqueror comes up,
>> If I try to enter an URL I get the message, that KHTML was not found,
>> which is clear the Konqueror needs it to display HTML :-)
>>
>> So the next thing, if I try to configure Konqueror, Konqueror crashes
>> imediatly after pressing the corresponding Menuitem.
>>
>> The next app I tried to start up was KWrite. Here the behaviour was,
>> that it crashes imideatly after starting the app, also saying that some
>> depedency was not met :-(
>>
>>   
> this looks at least partially be fixed in svn 
> http://windows.kde.org/news.php#itemAnewbrowseratthewindowsheaven and 
> will probably work with the next release or earlier if someone will make 
> a patch for kdebase.

Ok, I'll stay tuned :-)

>> Right now I'm trying to install everything I that may be needed by the
>> different apps, maybe that will fix the problems (switched to the new
>> version of the KDE installer) There seam to be problems with downloading
>> some packaes, unfortunately the installer do not say with package it is
>> in the message directly to it is a bit hard to get the list of faild
>> packages to post it here.
>>   
> Please send me personally the content of the file kdewin-installer.log 
> from the installer download dir, which is written each time the 
> installer runs.

You'll find it in the attachment.

>> BTW: I've installed msvc (version 8 and 9) and MinGW, it would be fine
>> if the installer would ask the people if they wanna use an existing
>> installtion of msvc (I don't know if the same problem exists with MinGW,
>> instead of blindly installing the same thing two times :-)
>>   
> This is because in installers < 0.8.1 external installers are not marked 
> after the installation in the database. This should be fixed now. 

Very fine :-)

Thanks for your help!

Best regards,
Nicolas
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