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Monday, January 23rd 2006, 2:52am

Konstruct finished but no kde3.5?

Hi,

I've tried installing kde 3.5 with konstruct. Everything seems to have compiled like it should. I used the "cd kde/kdebase; make install' command.

When konstruct completed I ran the commands in my shell that are mentioned in the readme.

Since I never updated kde before I have no idea what to do next... I rebooted but still the same kde 3.3.0 started.

I'm running Suse 9.2 Professional. Konstruct is in my /home/Sjaaksken/konstruct folder.

Anything else I need to set or do to test the 3.5 version and if possible run it instead of kde 3.3.0?

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Sjaaksken

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Monday, January 23rd 2006, 10:52am

I got no clue... but following might be it:

KDE is installed in a separate directory, next to your existing KDE (that I just learned)

so you might need to sign off (not reboot/halt) and adjust the sessiontype at log-in.

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Monday, January 23rd 2006, 8:12pm

well I figured that out so far. Only thing is I tried adjusting the session type but only one kde shows up (the kde 3.3.0)

I also don't seem to find where the new kde did actually install?

Is there a way to find out?

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Monday, January 23rd 2006, 11:58pm

sorry, I can't help there... It just seemed the logical thing you tend to forget about.

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Tuesday, January 24th 2006, 5:15am

well I appreciate that offcourse :)

anyway I have placed konstruct at the root folder and reran the kde/kdebase ; make install command.

It is still running and there seems to be a new folder at location /kde3.5 now. I am curious if this will work. Will let you know the results soon.

Althought I must say the documentation for konstruct is very thin. It doesn't seem to say much but the very very basics. Something they need to work on for sure.

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Tuesday, January 24th 2006, 6:35am

Hi!
I noticed you use SuSE 9.2 Pro. As far as I remember SuSE's YAST knows how to install new packages by itself. Is that available for your KDE upgrade? Maybe that should solve it for you - just an opinion... :)

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Tuesday, January 24th 2006, 6:43am

I have started off with checking the suse yast software update but there is only a different version of the 3.3.x branche available. I think like most distro's they deliberately wait for a bufferperiod to release new kde's. I have noticed they do the same with firefox releases (still version 1.07).

so I have to get it myself.. which I don't mind actually cos I can learn from it but just the whole konstruct principle seems to work nice but it lacks (alot) of documentation.

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Tuesday, January 24th 2006, 7:09am

What I am trying to say is that - I tried it myself :) - if you have a .rpm or another package which is recognised by the OS, if you browse it in Konqueror for example, you would get a button in the upper side of the wndow that sais "install this package using YaST". Is that option available for the KDE installation?...

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Tuesday, January 24th 2006, 10:28pm

I haven't found a 3.5 kde rpm for suse yet. I know novell doesn't have on for 9.2

Maybe some third party build rpm can be found.

Althought I prefer installing things trough compilation.

Anyway I'll look around how to make this konstruct complete the installation :) wish me luck hehe

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Wednesday, January 25th 2006, 12:27am

Ok the konstruct finished on my root login and now apparently I have kde 3.5 when I log in to the root account.

I'm rerunning the whole konstruct method 'kde/kdebase' on my user account.

When that is finished and running I'll post the steps I did to get it actually working.

:)

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Wednesday, January 25th 2006, 5:09am

Nice work!
I am also interesed in how you did that, since I don't know anything yet about konstruct. I am trying to get to my needs a Trustix Linux distro, which has no graphical user interface and I'm getting lots of trouble with manual installation of all the packages requested by kde and then the kde itself. Maybe that would work for me too! ;)

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Thursday, January 26th 2006, 12:32am

ok kde 3.5 running!

here's how I did it.

I downloaded konstruct, extracted it, entered the konstruct folder, typed the 'kde/kdebase ; make install' command.

That ran for hours but completed succesfully.

I than logged in as root and made a file called konstruct.sh containing the following code:

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#! /bin/sh
export QTDIR=<prefix>
export KDEDIRS=<prefix>
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=<prefix>/lib
export PATH=<prefix>/bin:$PATH
startkde


I replaced the <prefix> tag with ~/kde3.5 as briefly explained in the konstruct docs

I saved the file as /usr/X11R6/bin/konstruct.sh

I than ran the command

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chmod +x /usr/X11R6/bin/konstruct


and rebooted.

Next time my system started I had kde 3.5 (ok I lost alot of my menu settings but it works so that's what I was going for).

I did this on a suse 9.2 installation not sure if this works for other distro's but I would assume so.

I hope this is a help for anyone who's struggling with getting it to work :)

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Thursday, January 26th 2006, 5:40am

Thanks for the tip!
I think I'll give it a try - I got pretty annoyed by that Trustix so now I'm running Slackware 10.1
I'll try that since my primar interest in linux is learning ;) so I wanna try as many distro's as possible and get as many tips as possible for that!
Thanks again!

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Thursday, January 26th 2006, 6:58am

I seem to have forgot to mention an important thing:

you still have to add the kde paths to your profile:

eg. the file

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/home/Sjaaksken/.profile
has to be edited.

(replace Sjaaksken with your username offcourse)

add these lines to the file:

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export QTDIR=~/kde3.5
export KDEDIRS=~/kde3.5
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/kde3.5/lib
export PATH=~/kde3.5/bin:$PATH


I forgot that in the last post. This did the trick alltho I seem to have some amarok problems now ;(