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Sunday, March 23rd 2003, 11:25pm

KDE help forum?

I am looking for a place to learn how to install KDE onto my Mac running OSX with Apples X11 v.3 package. I am a GUI kinda guy but am very interested in supporting the OpenSource Community. Will this take me Years of study to figure all this stuff out, or is it possible for a newbie like myself to ease into the KDE desktop interface without messing up my system?

I am using Safari, aka Apples version of Konquerer, and love it.

I suppose there are hundreds of books out there I should be reading...

Thanks.
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Monday, March 24th 2003, 6:39am

I think first you'll have to get a Mac X server.
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Monday, March 24th 2003, 7:21am

Hi,

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I think first you'll have to get a Mac X server

:?: :?:

I heard about a Linux distribution called yello dog Linux which is designed für PowerPC CPU's. Perhaps you should have a look there.

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Monday, March 24th 2003, 9:27am

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Hi,

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I think first you'll have to get a Mac X server

:?: :?:

I heard about a Linux distribution called yello dog Linux which is designed für PowerPC CPU's. Perhaps you should have a look there.


Some folks are working on a OSX Port:
http://ranger.befunk.com/blog/archives/000072.html
http://fink.sourceforge.net/news/kde.php

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Kevin
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Saturday, April 5th 2003, 6:31pm

Debian PPC

You can install Debian PPC and later add this lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://bulmalug.net/~gallir/debian/kde31-powerpc/ ./
deb http://wh9.tu-dresden.de/kde3/karolina/ ./
deb http://shakti.ath.cx/debian/kde3.1/ ./

The first line is a spanish local repository for KDE PPC packages versions 3.1RC5 and 3.1RC6 but works fine. The only problem is you don't choose other languages than Spanish.

I hope this can help you.

Greetings and bye.
FDO. ER_MELENAS

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Sunday, May 11th 2003, 9:29pm

KDE on OS X

You don't need to install any other operating systems, if all you want is to be able to run KDE on Mac OS X. You said you're running Apple's X11 v.3. The only other thing you need is a program called "fink". You can get it here:
http://fink.sourceforge.net/
Once that is installed, run (in the Terminal):
[code:1]sudo dselect[/code:1]
or, if that doesn't work,
[code:1]sudo /sw/bin/dselect[/code:1]

Then, choose "Update", then "Select" Find the Base KDE 3.1 package in there, and select it for installation (sorry, you'll have to figure out the details on your own, there's help in the program).

Once it's installed, open up the X11 program, and type:
[code:1]/sw/bin/startkde &[/code:1]

And there you have it. I've got a couple of bugs in my installation of it (such as the sound not working...), but hey, it works.

Hope this helps,
Ben Foster
MacOS X user!! :D