installing kdevelop!

[Neville Pereira]

I had the same problems with the kdevelop rpm's and with the help of Troy Engel (who created the RH RPM's) eventually got things working. I then wrote the attached brute force script that quickly sets everything up correctly. The procedure I now use is as follows:

1) If you have already tried installing kdevelop (as you have) first find the hidden .kde directory in your home and 
look for and delete the kdeveloprc file that contains incorrect setup info and delete it so that when you re-start kdevelop 
will take you through the setup process it does at startup.

2) Create a kdevelop directory under /root and copy all installation files there including the following:

glimpse-4.1-bin-linux-2.0.30-i486.tar.gz
kdbg-1.0beta1-1.i386.rpm
kdelibs-1.1.1.tar.gz
sgmltools-2.0.2.base.tar
kdevelop-1.0beta1-1.redhat.i386.rpm
kdevelop-c_c++_ref-0.1-1.i386.rpm
manual.ps
tutorial.ps
bzip2
bzip.html
kdesdk-19990811.tar
kdoc-1.17-1.i386.rpm
setup

3) Start a terminal window (if you are in X), change to the /root/kdevelop directory and run setup from the bash prompt using:

./setup

This should set things up correctly. If the script breaks on your system, the commands should give you enough of an 
idea on how to complete the setup process by hand. I had one system that I had to do this for to complete the C++ documentation at the end. 

4) Start kdevelop and point at the /root/kdevelop/kdelibs directory when prompted for the location of the library files and /root/.kde/...etc for the documentation files.

I gather that the problem on RH systems is that the kde variable points to the /usr directory but Troy's rpms default to installing it into /opt/kde.

Neville Pereira
nfpereira at home.com

<A personal note to the kdevelop team> 

I'd like to acknowledge that I believe what you are doing is of tremendous strategic importance to the future of Linux as a viable mainstream computing platform since it promises to put commercial class integrated development tools into the hands of a lot of gifted developers. I see whole teams of these developers soon using kdevelop on the next generation of Linux applications. Please keep up the hard work - it is appreciated.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Stewart Hector 
  To: kdevelop at fara3.cs.uni-potsdam.de 
  Sent: Friday, September 03, 1999 4:28 AM
  Subject: installing kdevelop!


  I've got redhat 6. 
  I've tried installing KDevelop 1.01beta, but I'm still having the following problems: 
  no icons appear on the speedbar on either the dialog editor or kdevelop itself. 
  QT documentation can't be found. 
  I've read the redhat linux 6 installation link that is on the kdevelop home page, but this does not address my problems. 

  I have the kdelibs which are  located in: 
  /opt/kde/lib/kdelibs-1.1.1 

  also, I have QT which is located in /usr/lib/qt 

  All the QT html help files are in one directory: 
  /usr/lib/qt/html 

  where should these be?  Also, I get the impression that the QT html files should NOT be lumped in to one directory, but separated out into subdirectories.  Where can I find the documentation that is organised in to separate directories? 

  thanks alot. 

--
Stewart
ICQ: 5308166
http://freespace.virgin.net/s.hector/index.html

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