KDE on Solaris 9

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Monday, September 22nd 2003, 2:09am

Hello,
I just finished installing KDE 3.1.1a on a Sun Ultra5 360 with 384 mb of ram running a clean install of Solaris 9 (8/03 distribution). At this point, I haven't done too much probing but I've stumbled on two problems.

The first is that I cannot configure the desktop background with a jpeg image. I can use a png file and see the preview just fine. For the jpg file though, the preview shows as a broken file (using the 'browse' button) and choosing the file does nothing. I can see jpeg images on Konqueror and Kuickshow but I cannot view it through Kview. The error on the statusbar is "unknown image format: /*.jpg". The file type for jpeg files is in place.

The other problem I found was in trying to use Ksim to monitor the system but when launched, it shows on the taskbar that it is loading, but then dissappears without doing anything.

Up to this point, KDE is stable and applications seem to run well but I do need to continue probing. Any suggestions would be of great help since I do like the look and feel of KDE (I'm actully typing this post using Konqueror)

Thanx in advance,
Erick

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Monday, September 22nd 2003, 9:11am

Sounds like Qt is either compiled witout jpg support, is using a broke libjpeg or cannot find its image format plugin for jpg.

Did you install binary packages or did you compile yourself?

Btw, there is a KDE mailinglist dedicated to KDE on Solaris.
http://www.kde.org/mailinglists/

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Monday, September 22nd 2003, 4:28pm

Kde on Solaris 9

I did not do any compiling. Everything that was installed was from the Solaris 9 CD companion after installing the full oem of the OS. I downloaded the version mentioned of kde (and Koffice) from sun.com since the cd companion has version 3.1 not 3.1.1a. If compiling might be an issue then I have this questions?

The companion cd can install both gcc 2.95.3 and 3.2 in which I did but would it be better to just install version 3.2 only?

I just noticed that the sun cd companion does not have a listing for libjpeg even though there is one for libungif, where can I find out about both the library and the plugin?

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Monday, September 22nd 2003, 7:01pm

Re: Kde on Solaris 9

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I did not do any compiling. Everything that was installed was from the Solaris 9 CD companion after installing the full oem of the OS. I downloaded the version mentioned of kde (and Koffice) from sun.com since the cd companion has version 3.1 not 3.1.1a.

Hmm, sounds ok.

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The companion cd can install both gcc 2.95.3 and 3.2 in which I did but would it be better to just install version 3.2 only?

It wouldn't work at all if this where an issue, so I think you're save here.

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I just noticed that the sun cd companion does not have a listing for libjpeg even though there is one for libungif, where can I find out about both the library and the plugin?

Qt can be compiled to use its own version of libjpeg, perhaps this was used by the Solaris packager.
The imageformat plugins are in a subdirectory of the Qt library path.
For example my Qt library path is /usr/lib/qt3 so the imageformats on my system are in /usr/lib/qt3/plugins/imageformats

You better check the archives of kde-solaris on http://lists.kde.org/ if there is a known problem with JPEG support and/or post to this list.
I guess that the person who creates the packages for Solaris is subscribed there as well.

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Monday, September 22nd 2003, 7:56pm

kde on solaris 9

Actually, I take back the last quote regarding libjpeg. Solaris installs a jpeg library by default and it also installs gnome 2.0.2 as the window mgr. I noticed that in gnome, I can view jpeg previews and use them as backgrounds. So maybe that jpeg library is different in some way to the one kde needs??

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Tuesday, September 23rd 2003, 9:53am

Re: kde on solaris 9

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Actually, I take back the last quote regarding libjpeg. Solaris installs a jpeg library by default and it also installs gnome 2.0.2 as the window mgr. I noticed that in gnome, I can view jpeg previews and use them as backgrounds. So maybe that jpeg library is different in some way to the one kde needs??

Not very likely.
Qt might be using its internal version though.

However my guess is that the imageformat plugin isn't found.
Run qtconfig and see which paths Qt will search for libraries.
Then check all this paths and see if any contains a subdirectory "imageformats" and has a file called libqjpeg.so

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Tuesday, September 23rd 2003, 10:36pm

kde solaris 9

I'll check further...thanx for your responses...even though I've worked with solaris, I've never used a desktop environment other than cde until now.

One last Q, has anyone installed the 3.1.3 release built on Forte?

Erick

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