Hello,

Pardon the interuption, but some people here may want this info:

I am releasing a set of rpm's and tarballs containing yesterday's (11-24-=
2001)=20
CVS build. (kdenetwork is from this morning's CVS) These seem to be worki=
ng=20
here. They are alpha quality code and should not be used in a production=20
environment. There... you have been warned. These are NOT an official rel=
ease=20
of the KDE team.
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They are available at: http://www.pandmservices.com/kde3/  follow the kde=
3=20
alpha link. Enjoy! Make sure you get the fixed qt package that is out the=
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as it includes all the fixes that have been put into qt-copy in CVS.
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If you are using either the tarballs or the RPM's you must change your .b=
ashrc=20
to match that in step 4. KDM is not tested and most likely will not work =
so=20
you may want to use run-level 3 (non-graphical) and use "startx" from you=
r=20
command line. Hopefully in the next set I will fix the config files -=20
depending on how bored I am :-)

If you are installing the rpm's you will need the qt  tar or rpm and you=20
may need to use --no-deps to install in some cases.=20

All the tarballs or RPM's will install into /usr/local and contain differ=
ent=20
package names than the current production version of kde so things should=
 not=20
over-write each other. In other words kde2 and kde3alpha can reside on th=
e=20
same machine.

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=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
 This is a readme file for the tarballs distributed by Chris Molnar
 (molnar@kde.org). These are NOT official releases by the KDE team,
 but rather test packages made for my own testing.
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They are built on a Mandrake 8.1 machine, but should run on any system wi=
th
 the gcc 2.96 compiler. These packages include some Debug code so they ar=
e a=20
little larger than normal.
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Installation:
 1) download all the tarballs. qt is EXTREMELY important, do not skip.
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2) untar qt-copy into /usr/local/qt-copy
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3) change to / and un-tar the remainder. they should all un-tar into=20
/usr/local/ path
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4) in your .bashrc set:
         export QTDIR=3D/usr/local/qt-copy
         export KDEDIR=3D/usr/local
         export PATH=3D/usr/local/bin:$PATH
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5) I do not run in a graphical login mode so KDM in this version is untes=
ted.=20
I have also done a "urpme libqt2" on my system so you may have a little w=
ork=20
to do mixing the 2 versions. I decided to just use kde3.
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6) Repeat after me 20000000 times: USE AT YOUR OWN RISK! THIS IS A TEST=20
VERSION NOT STABLE FOR PRODUCTION USE. REPORT ALL ERRORS TO bugs.kde.org =
or=20
better yet to the kde3alpha mailing list! I DO NOT ANSWER BUG EMAIL NOT S=
ENT=20
TO THE LIST!!!
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-Chris
molnar@kde.org