install problems

[benjamin j collar]

Hello everybody,

Yesterday I tried to install kdevelop and ran into many problems.  I was
hoping you all could help me out.  I've checked what documentation I could
find but none of it helped.

First, some background.  Yesterday I reinstalled my box with RedHat 6.1.
I did a custom installation with both kde and gnome.

I downloaded the kdevelop rpm for redhat61 and it rpm-installed just fine.
As a non-root user I ran kdevelop and it came to the setup screen.  It
asked me if I wanted to use emacs style or k style, and I chose emacs.  It
then said it couldn't find the qt documentation and asked me to choose it.
So I put in the path /usr/doc/qt1x-devel-1.44--is this the directory it's
looking for?  It has all the qt html files in it, so I figured so.  Well,
I pressed next and it came back to asking me if I wanted to use emacs
style or not!

So I got grumpy and tried to uninstall it with rpm -e. That told me it
wasn't installed.  I typed rpm -qilp <kdevelop rpm> and for status it said
"not installed."  That was a little strange!

So I left it alone and instead went and downloaded the kdk tar file.  I
untarred it and typed ./configure.  It told me a little while down the
line that I didn't have any version of qt installed--but in fact I have
two versions installed:  2.0.1 and 1.44.  Both are in /usr/lib/qt<>.  I
looked at ld.so.conf and it has the path to both of them; I ran ldconfig
-v and it saw all the qtlibs.

So what's the deal?

But that's not all (grr!).  Kdevelop (the rpm one that wouldn't
uninstall), when I started it, complained that it couldn't find any of the
kde documentation.  I'm not sure exactly where the documentation is
supposed to be--can somebody tell me?

Overall, I'd like to have kdevelop and kdbg installed, preferably that
whole kdk package.  

I hope you all can help me out.  Today I had to reinstall again because
the root filesystem got all wacked and fsck coudln't fix it (don't ask, I
have *no* idea what happened overnight), so the system is all clean and
happy and I'm ready to do the install the right way.

Thank you all for your help
Ben


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