thanks to Duncan Haldane <duncan@feynman.princeton.edu> there are new and
improved binary rpm packages available from

ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/latest/contrib/distribution/rpm/RedHat-5.1/i386/binary/egcs/

and its mirrors.

Here follows the README:
Notes on the kdexxxx-1.0-2rh51.i386.rpm  KDE-1.0 rpms.

(1) These rpms are built to use the latest egcs-compiled
qt-1.40-1rh51.i386.rpm  that (if it is not in this directory)
is found at
    ftp://ftp.troll.no/qt/linux/redhat/qt-1.40-1rh51.i386.rpm


(2) They work on i386 RedHat 5.1 systems.


(3) They also work on i386 RedHat 5.0 systems
where the gcc-c++-2.7.2.3 compiler is NOT installed.  You will
need to install libstdc++-2.8.0 which is part of the RedHat 5.1
release  (available at ftp.redhat.com and mirrors)

(4)  They are all compiled with egcs on a glibc2 system.
Dont mix them with rpms compiled with gcc-c++ or libc5.
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Simple installation instructions:

(a)  Install libstdc++ if necessary (RedHat 5.0 systems).

(b)  Install qt-1.40-1rh51.i386.rpm     (NOT the qt-1.40-1rh50 rpm)

(c)  Install kdesupport, kdelibs , kdebase, + other kde rpms.
     All of these should be have the Release number 2rh51
     (e.g. kdesupport-1.0-2rh51.i386.rpm)

(d)  Edit your /etc/profile file:  add the lines

KDEDIR="/opt/kde"
PATH="$PATH:$KDEDIR/bin"
export KDEDIR

just before the line beginning with
export PATH PS1 HOSTNAME HISTSIZE .......

(e) in each user's home directory  (if they wish to use kde)
create a .Xclients file with the single line
/opt/kde/bin/startkde

If you wish to use kdm instead of xdm, then edit the
last line of /etc/initab, which is
x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/X11/xdm -nodaemon
to replace this by
#x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/X11/xdm -nodaemon
x:5:respawn:/opt/kde/bin/kdm -nodaemon

This will start kdm instead of xdm when the system runlevel is 5


(f) (optional) If you wish to configure the background to
the kdm login screen, edit /etc/X11/xdm/ to add a last
line
/opt/kde/kdmdesktop
(If you don't do this, the nice RedHat penguin logo will remain
as the background to the kdm login screen)


Thats all!


Yours,
-- martin

// Martin Konold, Herrenbergerstr. 14, 72070 Tuebingen, Germany  //
// Email: konold@kde.org                                         //
Anybody who's comfortable using KDE should use it. Anyone who wants to
tell other people what they should be using can go to work for Microsoft.