Newbie Question: Setup on RH7 for development

[Giorgi Lekishvili]

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> From: Mailing list agent [mailto:mdom at barney.cs.uni-potsdam.de]On
> Behalf Of Thorsten Schnebeck
> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 3:25 AM
> To: kdevelop at kdevelop.org
> Subject: Re: Newbie Question: Setup on RH7 for development
>
>
> Giorgi Lekishvili wrote:
> >
> > > From: Mailing list agent
> [mailto:mdom at barney.cs.uni-potsdam.de]On Behalf
> > > Of Jonathan Gardner
> > > I am a newbie to Linux, but not to programming. I am coming from
> > > Windows.... so
> [...]
> > > My system right now is a fairly stock RH7.
> > >
> > Learn on my bitter experience: RH likes GNOME (which is really
> not bad, I
> [...]
> > As I was advised myself (by Jurgen Su?maier,
> > mailto://juergen@suessmaier.de ), you need:
> > Xfree86 4.0.2,
> > Kernel 2.4 (not 2.2.16, which is not satisfactory);
> > kde 2.1 (RH box has 1.x, and kde 2.0 test, in the 2nd CD, in 'preview');
> > qt-2.2.4 (instead of qt-2.2.0, do not delete
> > qt-1.45, its presence is mandatory);
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> only for KDE1 programs
>
>
> > and kdevelop 1.4.
> > So, you need to download a lot of stuff and compile them, if there is no
> > rpm.
>
> Naaaa! Bitter experience, why?
because I did all this...
>
> Ok, RH7 has Gnome as default and IIRC a strange GCC-Version.
> But Jonathan, if you want to be a KDE programmer you have to learn how to
> handle with source-code!
> So compiling things from cvs or tar-balls is some kind of a basic
> exercise.
Yes, of course, but on my PC (not quite modern, though - 200mHz MMX) only
qt-2.2.4 took... 8hrs! Yes, one can get PIII, but the best of Linux is, that
on can employ some older PCs as successfully, as the modern ones with
win2000....
> And another point: The difference between the varios linux
> distribution are
> not so large and can be changed.
> You have to come to one decision: Will you stay on package-management
> (binaries) á la RPM or will you go with the source?
So, my advise is still to use RPMs, whenever possible, or get some new
distros... people say that RH7.1 will have everything needed.
>
> In the latter case you can mail me in private, and I will help
> you creating
> a basic KDE development set-up.
> Of course you can try RH KDE-2.1-RPMs also.
>
> Bye
>
>   Thorsten
>
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