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DOH !!! :oops: Thats what you get for blindly copying install instructions without thinking about them. When I changed the directories all worked as expected. Thanks for spotting the typos!!! Cheers

Tried it thanks, but get the same effect it boots into a fresh KDE3.1 desktop. May just be sticking with 3.1 until my understanding of Linux develops somewhat! Cheers.

Thanks, but that doesn't seem to be it. When I boot to init 3 and run the startkde in the kde3.2.1 directory I don't get any error messages, it just starts KDE3.1. I would be interested to hear if anyone running RH9 has had similar issues. I'm puzzled. :?

I installed KDE3.2.1 from source last night using Konstruct. After a bit of fiddling it completed successfully and I have a full install in my ~/kde3.2.1. The problem I now have is I can't get it to run! I have edited my .bashrc file to include export QTDIR=~/kde3.2 export KDEDIR=~/kde3.2 export KDEDIRS=~/kde3.2 export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/kde3.2/lib export PATH=~/kde3.2/bin:$PATH export KDEHOME=~/.kdetest but when I restart all I get is the default 3.1 screen replete with 'start here' icon, etc. a...