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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Question on Mandrake configuration of Dual KDE environment
From:       Keith Antoine <kantoine () eastwind ! com ! au>
Date:       2000-01-23 9:59:44
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Clifford Yapp wrote:
> 
>      I recently downloaded the new KDE2 binary files to attempt an
> instillation on my computer, but I'm running into some rather odd problems.
> I can't attempt to use the new KDE without being sure I can hang on to the
> old one, and I can't figure out how to configure Mandrake to use both of
> them.  I'm using as a reference the kde1-and-kde2.txt document. On the
> configuration of the shell scripts, to be placed in ~/bin/kde1, I have two
> problems.  First, I apparently have no directory ~/bin/kde1.  KDE, as well
> as QT, appear to be integrated with the rest of the libs and binaries.
> Second, exporting KDEDIR and QTDIR is a problem. I tried echo $KDEDIR and
> echo $QTDIR to find the current values, but on the first one I just got /usr
> and the second I got nothing at all.  Has anyone successfully configured
> Mandrake to run both KDE 1.1 and KDE 2.0,or know what to do with the setup
> of KDE that Mandrake uses?

I have Caldera and there is some information re your problem but related
to
caldera, which may just be of some help. Anyway you can look at
www.eastwind.com.au/twinkdes.htm you may also be interested in the step
x step
site www.eastwind.com.au/mirror.htm

-- 
Keith Antoine

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