On Monday 08 Apr 2002 6:39 pm, Doug Holland wrote: > What things, aside from building to /usr/local/kde instead of /usr, should > I do to make sure KDE 3.0 doesn't screw up my nicely apt-consistent Debian > system? (I'm running Woody, with apt-get set to download unstable > packages. So far, I don't have any major problems.)
There's a nice little howto here: http://women.kde.org/projects/coding/kde2+3.html Obviously you can ignore the parts about CVS if you have downloaded the tarballs. You will also want to use the "--enable-final --disable-debug" options when configuring KDE packages, and maybe "--enable-fast-malloc=full" with kdelibs. I've found that putting a bash script in /usr/local/bin is useful for allowing KDE2's KDM to start KDE3: #!/bin/sh # /usr/local/bin/kde3 export KDEHOME=~/.kde3 export KDEDIR=/usr/local/kde3 export QTDIR=/usr/local/qt export MANPATH=$QTDIR/doc/man:$MANPATH export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$KDEDIR/lib:$QTDIR/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH export PATH=$KDEDIR/bin:$QTDIR/bin:$PATH exec /usr/local/kde3/bin/startkde You can then use KDE2's control centre to add a "kde3" session. You will need to put "no-generate-sessiontypes" in /etc/kde2/kdm/kdm.options to stop KDM from deleting your session type when it searches for new window-managers. This may not be the "Debian Way", but I've only touched /usr/local so it is easy to remove. :) -- Daniel Rees e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
