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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Bug#17306: KDE 2.0 is a bug itself ...
From:       David van Hoose <david-vh () home ! com>
Date:       2000-12-18 23:34:07
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Suzanne Britton wrote:
> 
> > I'm running RedHat 7.0 with all update RPMS.
> 
> Compile from source.
> Compile from source.
> Compile from source.
> 
> I can't say it enough times. From all I've heard, the packagers have not
> been doing a very good job with 2.x. I run 2.0.1 installed from source and
> for the most part it is quite stable and functional.
> 
> Also, I recommend eradicating any trace of KDE 1.x before installing.

I can't.. I still run way too many KDE 1.x apps. I just hack everything
to do the conversion. Someone forgot to write this into the KDE 2.x
startup.

> Here's the process I went through to install 2.0.1 on a RedHat 6.2 system:
> 
>   - Login as root
>   - Install RedHat RPMS: libjpeg 6b, libpng 1.0.5, zlib 1.1.3,
>     openssl 0.9.5a, and devel RPMS for them
>   - Unpack QT into /usr/local/qt, KDE into /usr/local/src/kde*

I put Qt 2.2.3 in the /usr/lib/qt-2.2.3 directory.

>   - Install KDE in /usr/local/kde:
>       umask 022
>      ./configure --disable-debug --with-shadow --without-gl
>      make
>      make install
>      ldconfig
>      (do this in each of the KDE source dirs, first libs, then base, then
>      any others)

As always.

> For a little extra efficiency, I stripped installed binaries and stripped
> --strip-unneeded the shared libraries. I also went into the Makefile for
> kdesupport/mimelib beforehand and selected DW_PRODUCTION_VERSION (which for
> some reason is not selected by default, even if you use --disable-debug). And
> I'll put all this advice on a "Compiling KDE" page which will be up Real Soon
> Now :-)

Very nice. I'll take that into consideration. Thank you.

> Yeah, it's a bit of a hassle. Hopefully this will get easier with time.  Better
> yet, hopefully the RPM packagers will start creating stable, efficient RPMS.

Whenever I have the chance, I compile everything myself. Sadly, I
haven't had much time to do this. I've been trying to install Qt 2.2.3
all day, but I keep getting errors. I am trying without thread support
or kde support. Those don't work.

> BTW, the problems with bookmark handling (which I have encountered too) are
> fixed in 2.1.

Thanks for the note. I'm looking forward to the final release.

-- 
-Dave
 
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