From kde-user Sun May 30 07:13:40 1999 From: "David E. Fox" Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 07:13:40 +0000 To: kde-user Subject: Re: Makefile X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-user&m=92804745410201 > I'm running redhat 5.2 with kde. I just downloaded koffice, unzipped untared > it. I cd to the koffice directory, which has a configure.in file in it. I do > autoconf in that directory, and it makes a configure file. However, when I Since you are admittedly a newbie, I would hold off on compiling koffice right now for a while until the rest of kde gets cleaner and better. You see, koffice requires new libraries that are built on a newer Qt (2.0) than the Qt used in kde-1.1, and there are effectively two branches, the stable (kde-1.1) and development (kde-2.0) more or less, and koffice is being developed under the new branch. Right now, things are in a state of high flux as new things are done to qt, which affects kdelibs/kdebase and then you have to update qt again, reget newer versions of kdelibs/kdebase and sit while the thing takes all night to compile :(. Consequently, it may not be that helpful for you. I'd start with smaller packages and see if you can compile them first. > message. I put the koffice directories in /local on my system. I've had > trouble compiling other kde apps as well. I'm a linux newbie, like three Well, that is a problem. So you run ./configure in local/koffice (after cd'ing there first) and then you see it generate a series of makefiles, right? Or is it configure itself that is saying that it cannot locate the source files? > weeks now. So I don't have a clue as to what is going on. I like kde a lot, > but I must say installing kde apps that didn't > come with the original rpm package is an opaque procedure at best! Not if someone provides rpm's for them. :) But in general, installing kde apps isn't too difficult. One needs only to unpack, configure, make and make install typically. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David E. Fox Tax Thanks for letting me dfox@belvdere.vip.best.com the change magnetic patterns root@belvedere.sbay.org churches on your hard disk. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Send posts to: kde-user@lists.netcentral.net Send all commands to: kde-user-request@lists.netcentral.net Put your command in the SUBJECT of the message: "subscribe", "unsubscribe", "set digest on", or "set digest off" All kde mailing lists are archived at http://lists.kde.org ********************************************************************** This list is from your pals at NetCentral