[ale] Installing KDE

[Chris Fowler]

I do not know what to say about KDE 3.1.1  I have not seen and immediate
improvement.  I expected konqueror to behave a little better on previous
IE only sites I visited with the older version, but it still renders.
them almost unreadable.

I compiled 3.1.1 on 2 machines.  One with 256m and the other with 512m
of memory.  I was in a deadlock with swap on the 256m machine.  I used
dd to quickly add 1GB of instant swap space for this.  One thing that 
compiling KDE proves is that compiling c++ programs require a full
frontal attack with resources.  KDE is all C++.  The cc1plus compiler at
one time was using 80% of the system memory.  Wow. cc1 never used that
much memory.

I can say that the icons look nice.  totally worth the trouble, not.


On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 17:37, Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> On Monday 24 March 2003 02:47 pm, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > Guys/Gals,
> >
> > I've *finally* got KDE 3.1.1 compiled.  I am now going to switch to it
> > on my RH7.3 machine.  All the new stuff is loaded in /opt/kde?
> >
> > Here are my plans.
> >
> > 1) mv all /usr/bin/<kde type> binaries to a temp directory
> > 2) Make symbolic links of everyting in /opt/kde/bin to /usr/bin/<file>
> > 3) Pray it works.
> >
> > Is this a good plan of attack?
> >
> What I did was go to runlevel 3 and
> 
> 1. in /etc/X11/xdm/kdmrc I put /opt/kde/bin in the PATH first.
> 2. added /opt/kde/lib to my /etc/ld.so.conf file
> 3. run ldconfig
> 
> restart runlevel 5 and it worked.
> 
> At the very least you need to add the libraries.
> 
> Michael
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