I was silly enough to think I, a real newbie, could just get the new
1.1.1. KDE and drop it into my Mandrake + 2.2. kernel + tt fonts setup
(someone helped me with that).

I have qt1.42 and the five KDE 1.1.1 rpms.

I started the install from /usr/src/redhar/RPMS/i386/

It said it would install in /opt/kde

It installed kdesupport but then gives me failed dependencies:
   kdelibs-rh5x is needed by kdebase-1.1.1-1rh5x
   libjscript.so.2  is needed by kdebase-1.1.1-1rh5x
   libkdecore.so.2 is needed by kdebase-1.1.1-1rh5x
   libkdeiu.so.2 is needed by kdebase-1.1.1-1rh5x
   libkfile.so.2 is needed by kdebase-1.1.1-1rh5x
   libkfm.so.2 is needed by kdebase-1.1.1-1rh5x
   libkhtmlw.so.2 is needed by kdebase-1.1.1-1rh5x
   libkimgio.so.2 is needed by kdebase-1.1.1-1rh5x
   libmediatool.so.2 is needed by kdebase-1.1.1-1rh5x

However it then stated that these are harmless but indicated that
/etc/ld.so.conf has invalid entries.

I then said I wanted to use kdm but the installation says that
/opt/kde/bin/kdm does not appear to exist so it is exiting with the
question "is the correct kdebase installed"? I should know!

But then I can add some users.

If I then startx, the screen flashes and then dumps me back in a text
screen with several Mach64 lines about color weight, pixmap cache and
font cache before stating that local host has been added to access
control list and then the error:

/root/.Xclients:/opt/kde/bin/startkde: no such file or directory.

waiting for X server to shut down.

How could I be so silly as to think this would work without hassles
that mean nothing to a non-nerd like me? :-(

Rgds

Martin