ANNOUNCE: KDE Snapshot Binaries available 2000-06-30

[Christopher Molnar]

A Fourth or July weekend present for all of you! (Where you wondering what
you can do over this long weekend? now you know :-)) These binaries have
been pretty well tested for basic functionality. The RPM's have been 
rebuilt to solve several dependency problems. If for some reason you
have conflicts with the RPM's do a --force --nodeps on the install. 

VERY IMPORTANT: THESE BINARIES ARE CREATED FROM THE CVS AND MAY NOT BE
IDENTICAL TO THE BETA THAT WAS RELEASED. THESE ARE NOT OFFICIAL KDE
BINARIES. (DEVELOPERS: The date in kapp.h is changed to 20000630).

 A new version of the KDE ALPHA binaries are available
 at us.mandrakesoft.com.  Please read the README file in the
 same directory. Just in case you missed it "READ THE README" prior to
 doing anything! If you need help installing please go to www.kde.org and
 look for directions.

 These binaries are built from CVS as of 30 June
 2000 at 12:00am Eastern Standard Time (-0500).

 Please bring all install questions to the un-official
 kde-alpha list at kde-alpha-request at nebsllc.com.

 These binaries are built with QT 2.1.1 (-3mdk if you are a mandrake 
 rpm user). You must have qt 2.1.1 with jpeg support compiled. Get it
 in the same directories as the packages or at any Mandrake-devel 
 mirror.

 When you upgrade plese consider copying your old /opt/kde2 to an
 /opt/kde2.old directory and then installing. This way you have something
 to go back to.

 These files are available via ftp from:

 ftp://us.mandrakesoft.com/pub/kde

 or via http at:

 http://us.mandrakesoft.com/~molnarc (follow links for kde2 Alpha
 binaries)

 You will also be able to find these at (after a few days):

 http://www.htw-dresden.de/~s2697

 The RPM's will appear on the Mandrake-devel (cooker) mirrors in the 
 contribs directory within the next few days. They have been uploaded 
 to the primary host.

 The RPM installs have been tested by me on a Mandrake 7.1
 machine. They have also been reported to work on all
 other distributions.

 The rpm's are built with Mandrake 7.1. If you are not running the
 most recent version of rpm, I would suggest an upgrade.

 If you are running prior Alpha's I highly recommend you
 update. There are a lot of fixes and some structural
 changes in the packages.

 You will also find Source tar.gz's in the same
 directory.

-- 
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 Christopher Molnar,RHCE
 New England Business Services, LLC
 Mandrake Software
 Hartford, CT USA
 (860)956-9408
 molnarc at nebsllc.com
 molnarc at mandrakesoft.com

 "It said uses Windows 95 or better, so I loaded Linux!"