Looking for hints on getting kdewin-installer-gui-0.9.0-1.exe to work

[Gudmund Areskoug]

Ralf Habacker wrote:
> Gudmund Areskoug schrieb:
>> Ralf Habacker wrote:
>> Do you mean that this wouldn't have happened, had I chosen the
>> non-developer flavour?
>>   
> no.  The problem is that the kde installation does not install 
> mingwm10.dll by the installer.

Good to know, thanks!

>>>> so running anything in C:\KDE\bin resulted in a complaint about
>>>> wrong path to that file.
>>>>       
>> A Windows registry thing? Wonder if it's possible to do away with
>> registry and/or forced installations, making things more like portable apps.
>>   
> no

Pity (if "no, we can't do away with registry etc." is what you meant).

>>> kstars is located in the kdeedu package.
>>>     
>> ...which isn't in this package. 
> I have installed the kdeedu package 4.0.63 for msvc compilers. It 
> contains kstars.exe

I had it, only didn't find it, for some reason.

Kstars runs well, apart from some flakiness in not reacting/being
inordinately slow on button clicks, but I've had Konqueror crash.

BR,
Gudmund