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I am going to write a short article about some of the technicalities involved in running konstruct (that i encountered).

Firstly, read the instructions. There are small things which you may overlook such as changing the prefix. Konstruct defaults to your home directory which is not what a system-wide installation requires. Change the prefix to /usr in konstruct/gar.conf.mk

Secondly, you will run into alot of problems if you are behind a firewall which blocks ftp. I was forced to find many alternatives which are based on http. To change the url where konstruct looks for the file, change the Makefile in

.../konstruct/libs/lib-name/

it will be easy to recognise.

Thirdly, if you encounter a problem regarding libGL.la not being a valid archive tool, you have an older Nvidia driver. nvidia simply forgot a simple couple of words in the file.

do the following:

edit the file /usr/lib/libGL.la
and replace the line

# Generated by nvidia-installer: 1.0.5

with

# Generated by nvidia-installer: 1.0.5 (for use by libtool)


That should sort out your problems.

Thats the run down on the problems which i had, but kde 3.2.1 runs BRILLIANTLY!

Hope that helps,
Seb