From kde Sat Mar 20 02:05:32 2004 From: Jim Jensen Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 02:05:32 +0000 To: kde Subject: [kde] Building KDE-3.2.1 from Source Message-Id: <1079748332.2603.11.camel () BigDaddy ! SandCanyon> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde&m=107974833423761 Greetings, First, thank you very much for the super desktop software!! I love it!!! Now, for the question: I'm running RH9 with KDE-3.1 on a 2 CPU Athlon box. I have all the latest RH9 updates installed, except I'm still running kernel 2.4.20-28.9smp, because -2.4.20-30.9 seems to cause some strange instability. I want to upgrade my desktop to KDE-3.2.1. I've seen your KDE-3.2 prerequisites, and believe I've built and/or installed all of them. I realize there are Fedora rpms available for 3.2.1. I've tried these and they seem to work. However, I'm trying to find an alternative to Fedora as a path into the future. So I'm attempting to start from the vanilla updated RH9 system and go directly from KDE-3.1 to KDE-3.2.1 directly by building from source. Therefore I've downloaded the KDE-3.2.1 source tarballs, and compiled them. Things work well for the most part; however kdepim and kdenetwork produce compile errors. I can get kdenetwork to compile by deleting the 'wifi' folder. I'll persue these problems separately, since they're not my main issue right now. The main problem I'm facing is with Control Center (kcontrol). When I run it, clicking on Appearance & Themes produces only the selection "Splash Screen". Entries for Backgrounds, Colors, Fonts, Icons, etc are missing. I believe entries under some of the other main items are missing as well. If I remember correctly (I've done many RH9 re-installs followed by attempts to get clean upgrades to KDE-3.2.1), if I first install the Fedora KDE-3.2.0 rpms and then build KDE-3.2.1 from source I get the entries I expect in Control Center. Again, I'm trying to get KDE-3.2.1 running without resort to any Fedora stuff. Any ideas on what's missing? Or how I can correct the symptom? Jim Jensen ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.