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kde 3.2 - INSTALLED BUT HOW TO RUN

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Tuesday, March 2nd 2004, 8:00am

kde 3.2 - INSTALLED BUT HOW TO RUN

Hello,

I feel a bit dim!

I'm running Linux 8.2. I've just installed KDE 3.2 using Konstruct to my /home/ directory. I try "startkde" in Konsole, the login screen comes up, I log in and it is KDE 3.1. that is running. How do I get KDE 3.2 to run? Is there something obvious I'm missing?

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Tuesday, March 2nd 2004, 9:15pm

You have to edit the shell file which is in your home directory :

- ".bashrc" if you're using bash
- ".tcshrc" if you're using tcsh
- etc

and add the following variables :

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

Don't forget to create a ".kdetest" directory in your home directory. Then just logout and login ...

If you want to return to kde 3.1. just comment this lines with the character '#'.

This is explain in README.TXT file of Konstruct

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Wednesday, March 3rd 2004, 7:45am

Thanks Chamoute. I had misunderstood the README file. I've done what you suggest but when I try to log in again as user I get a window saying -

could not start ksmserver, check installation

The KDE 3.2 log in panel half forms and freezes and I get sent back to the login screen and have to log in as root to get into KDE 3.1 to put # comment in the .bashrc to allow me to get back into KDE 3.1 as user.

Any ideas? I'm pretty new so do not know what the ksmserver is.

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Wednesday, March 3rd 2004, 11:09am

2 questions :

- who is the owner of your /home/login/kde3.2 directory ? The user must have the right on the files he executes. You can change recursively the owner with the command : "chown -R login /home/login/kde3.2"

- where did you launch the "make install" command in Konstruct (perhaps you didn't install everything needed) ?

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Wednesday, March 3rd 2004, 7:32pm

I installed Konstruct in my /home/Donald/ directory then cd to /home/Donald/Konstruct/kde and then make install.

All the kde 3.2 files have user as owner and the right permissions.

But I did run a make install on the ksmserver in Konstruct just now as hunch that it had not installed properly. Running "starkde" in Konsole then successfully took me into KDE 3.2 which was fun. However, rebooting the computer and trying to login as user simply gave a frozen KDE 3.2 panel and I had to reboot and login as root to get back to 3.1 as user.

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Thursday, March 4th 2004, 9:56am

Thanks for the clue - I reran make install in Konstruct just to see if there was something missing and the kdebindings began to install themselves. I can now login but have further problems which I have put into another thread.

Donald