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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    RE: redhat 7.3 kde gotchas
From:       "Hunt, Bryan" <B.Hunt () emuse-tech ! com>
Date:       2002-07-29 8:29:00
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Thanks dude, I will give it a shot. By the way do you know that the 8.0 beta
(limbo) is out now ?

--B

-----Original Message-----
From: Kuba Ober [mailto:kuba@mareimbrium.org]
Sent: 27 July 2002 16:57
To: kde-devel@kde.org
Subject: Re: redhat 7.3 kde gotchas


On piątek 26 lipiec 2002 09:30 am, Hunt, Bryan wrote:
> I am trying to build kde 3.1 alpha on a redhat 7.3 system, I am using gcc
> 3.1 but do not seem
> to be getting anywhere. Everything builds without error but it freaks out
> when i start a kde application. I get dcop errors and then it says that
> there may be a dcop running blah blah

Try

ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide
or
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/beta/limbo

I'm using rawhide, and it works fine. Note that redhat 7.3 does *not* ship 
with gcc 3.1, so you must have done something to fix that I assume.

Rawhide's kde was a little unusable for the last week or a little before,
due 
to their changing over to a different .desktop file location scheme.

Right now it works fine for me, and it uses gcc 3.2!

Note that you must do following:
1. Install compat-stdlibc++ package so that the 7.3's C++ applications have 
the library to use. Note that stdlibc++ for gcc 2.96, 3.0.x, 3.1 and 3.2 are

incompatible. Hopefully from 3.2 onwards the compatibility will be 
maintained.
2. Install all qt + kde packages and their dependencies
3. Update preferably all lib* packages (libpng, libtiff, libungif, etc.
really 
need to be upgraded)
4. I've upgraded my whole redhat to rawhide, and it works very nicely, 
although you probably don't need to.

I'm keeping an up-to-date local mirror of rawhide, it's worth doing (use the

mirror package from rpmfind, the latest version from either redhat or
rawhide 
works fine).

Note that you should keep compat-libstdc++ even if you completely upgrade,
as 
several popular binary programs (adobe acrobat, opera, sun's java) need it.

Also note that it's most probably *not* worth upgrading rpm & popt: the rpm 
4.1 has subtle problems that you may not want to be confronted with. If you 
*do* upgrade, here's the hint:
- if rpm hangs, you need to 
# killall -9 rpm 
from a different session (^C doesn't work)
- then you need to
# cd /var/lib/rpm
# db_recover
And it will work again. You need to have db4-utils installed for db_recover
to 
be available.

Note that rawhide includes kde 3.0.2, and typically it's also upgraded from 
the cvs in the meantime, so most of the time you're reasonably stable and 
reasonably cutting-edge.

One note: I use self-compiled linus kernel (no additional patches), so I
have 
no clue about rawhide's kernel stability, etc. You've been warned.

Cheers, Kuba Ober
 
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