From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 21 16:42:40 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C0C837B401 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 16:42:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from sage.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B3B043FE0 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 16:42:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (root@tao [10.0.0.247]) by sage.thought.org (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id h1M0hjI76942; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 16:43:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by thought.org (8.12.6/8.11.3) id h1M0gYRw039031; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 16:42:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline) Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 16:42:33 -0800 From: Gary D Kline To: "Brian T. Schellenberger" Cc: Gary D Kline , David Cramblett , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: from GNOME to KDE Message-ID: <20030222004233.GA38989@tao.thought.org> References: <20030221191832.GA37921@tao.thought.org> <3E567CF2.7040607@axisintegrated.com> <20030221202518.GB37950@tao.thought.org> <200302211901.56064.bts@babbleon.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200302211901.56064.bts@babbleon.org> X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 16 years of service to the Unix community User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 07:01:55PM -0500, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote: > > > > On Friday 21 February 2003 03:25 pm, Gary D Kline wrote: > | On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 11:24:34AM -0800, David Cramblett wrote: > | > if you have KDE installed, try the program switchdesk on Linux. > | > | Well, I asked for Gnome and that's all my friend > | installed. > | > | Where can I pull down a KDE3 *.rpm file? > | (This is RH v 8.0, so KDE3 should work if > | I can find it. > > Umm . . . if this is RH 8.0 why are you posting on a FreeBSD list? > > For Freebsd, the easiest thing to do (thought it doesn't actually get > the *latest* KDE) is > > pkg_add -r kde3 > > Or, if you have more time to install it (this is easy but it takes a LOT > of time--many hours), you can get 3.1 with > > cd /usr/ports/*/kde3 > make install > Well, I'd like to get KDE on one of my platforms. At least one reason KDE3 fails here is that the newest QT is broken. I could get an earlier vrsion, but I'll wait. -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message