Installing KDE3

[Iztok Kobal]

Tom Wesley wrote:

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>On Thursday 04 April 2002 9:04 pm, John Sturtz wrote:
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>>Sorry if this is a total newbie question, but somehow this sort of thing
>>almost always goes wrong when I try it.
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>>I'm running KDE2.2/SuSE 7.2, and thought I might try installing KDE3.  I
>>see that SuSE has a site with rpm's for 7.2, but somehow, after reading
>>such documentation as I could find, it's not clear to me ... which ones do
>>I need to get?  All of them?  And then is it a simple matter of rpm -Uvh
>>*.rpm?
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
>>/John
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>I believe that there are still problems with the SuSE rpm's.
>- From SLE
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I've been on ftp.kde.org few minutes ago and have seen the kdebase.rpm from today. Is this the thing you have been waiting for ?

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>This is a showstopper warning about KDE3.
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>The SuSE build of KDE3 for 7.3 is NOT up to normal SuSE standards.
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>These things will most likely break:
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>        aRts ( audio )
>        javascript focushandler in konqueror
>        non-7bit ( i.e. EIGHT bit ) fonts when used as base language
>                ex. Icelandic/Icelandic -> broken base fonts.
>
>If you are not comfortable changing quite a few ( about five or six :) scripts 
>in /etc,
>one in /usr/X11R6/bin and to fiddle and hope for the things listed above to 
>work, you
>should NOT install the 3.0.0 version !
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>All have been warned and I have been burnt.
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>- -tosi
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>Hope this helps,
>Tom
>- -- 
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