On Thu, 19 Jun 2008, Sticky Bit wrote: > On Thursday 19 June 2008 17:37:01 Ernst W. Winter wrote: > > Well I just installed ver. 7 on a external HD with zfs to try > > that out and see, and I don't have any GUI yet and would like to > > test the new one out as I can send you what is not and how > > working. > > Great! Your help is very appreciated! Thank you! > > > If you can give me instructions on how to set it up as I have no > > problem to use a ports tree and do a "make install clean" with > > all poets. > > Fine! You can use your favorite ports management tools. > > I usually do something like this: > > 1. You really should make backups (e. g. with dump, see handbook). Just to be > safe for the worst case. Normally you will not need those but who knows. It > is always wise to have recent backups ... ;-) > > 2. Create a new user account. This account you use only for test purposes. > Use > KDE 4 only with this account. This way you can safely use your existing KDE 3 > installation with your usual user account without any changes to your > existing home .kde folder. > > 3. Choose a partition for the area51 repository checkout. I personally > use /var, but you can use what you want. > > 4. If you use /var (or use your path here) then > > # cd /var > > 5. This creates a folder area51 into /var with checked out repository. > > # cvs -d:ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/kde-freebsd co area51 > > 6. If you use /var (or use your path here) then > > # mount -t unionfs /var/area51 /usr/ports > > You have now area51 repository on top of your existing ports tree. Use your > ports tree now as usual. > > 7. Install / update QT 4 first. > > 8. Install KDE 4 ports you want. You can start with /usr/ports/x11/kdebase4 > > That is all. When you want to use your unmodified original ports tree just > > # umount /usr/ports > > and everything is like before. Of course do not downgrade / uninstall the new > installed ports and run KDE 4 only with your test user account. ;-) > well all is well and on its way on my Laptop now and compiling QT4.4.0 and once that is finished I will start it with kde4-base. BTW, I have on it kde3 too.
Still I like to get it gooing with the eternal HD with zfs, and as a clean kde, as I have nothing els on it yet, just to start with kde4 and nothing else. :-) How can I use the cvs there? > I hope I did not forget something ... Just ask if you have further questions. > Don't think so as everything is running well! Ernst > -- > Regards, > Sticky Bit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > _______________________________________________ > kde-freebsd mailing list > kde-freebsd@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd -- ================================================== Mail just Ascii plain text. HTML & Base64 is spam email = nur reiner Text. HTML & Base64 sind SPAM _______________________________________________ kde-freebsd mailing list kde-freebsd@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd
