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Hello,

I recently used Konstruct to build the release candidate version of KDE 3.2
All went well except running the new kde.

Here's what I did to install it:

1. Create a new user kde-devel
2. Log in with that new account
3. Download Konstruct
4. cd to kde/kdebase in the extracted konstuct folder
5. make install in that directory
6. Everything went well and kde 3.2 got installed in my home directory (/home/kde-devel/kde3.2-rc/)
7. I changed the home/kde-devel/.bash-profile script to use the new kde 3.2
I added the following lines to it:
[code:1]QTDIR=/home/kde-devel/kde3.2-rc
KDEDIR=/home/kde-devel/kde3.2-rc
KDEHOME=/home/kde-devel/.kdetst
PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:$QTDIR/bin:$KDEDIR/bin
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$QTDIR/lib:$KDEDIR/lib
export QTDIR KDEDIR KDEHOME PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH[/code:1]
8. I logged out and logged in again.
9. It seems to load KDE 3.2 but I don't see the "welcome" picture, only a small black line in the middle of the screen, and I only see the wallpaper, no desktop after that line has disappeared.

I'm using Mandrake 9.2, but that should not be the problem.


Anyone know what I might be doing wrong?
I used this article (http://developer.kde.org/build/build2ver.html) as the basis for installing kde 3.2 rc. I use Konstruct to download and compile the files.


In short, when I try to run the new kde, I only see a blank wallpaper, nothing more and nothing works, no popup menu, no keyboard shortcuts, nothing.


Can anyone please help?
Thanks.

Got it to work.

I forgot to add the line
[code:1]/home/kde-devel/kde3.2-rc/lib[/code:1]
to the file: /etc/ld.so.conf