Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 01:18:42 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com> To: Joey Garcia <gummibear@nettaxi.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: checking KDE2 again.. Message-ID: <3A261B72.60440F55@urx.com> References: <200011291807.AA43450538@wdc.callgtn.com> <00112920442900.00959@bsd.we.mediaone.net> <3A25DB3D.90020D9E@urx.com> <00112923075100.02990@bsd.we.mediaone.net>
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Joey Garcia wrote: > > On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Kent Stewart wrote: > > > > You know, I'm having the same exact problem. I just got done installing > > > FreeBSD 4.2 and installed KDE 2.0 via the packages system. (I too could > > > never get the ports to compile correctly) It seems that the logout > > > buttons don't work at all. It's kind of annoying having to kill the X > > > server in order to get out of KDE. I guess that's what happens when > > > running "made for Linux" software. > > > > I'm running KDE-2 just fine. They just fixed kscd so that I can play > > my audio CD's. If you are having problems, something in the your > > dependancy tree isn't built right. You have to have removed qt and all > > of the KDE1 stuff. The other ports in the dependancy list also have to > > be current. Then it will take a few hours to build but it works just > > fine. > > > > Kent > > So you're saying that it's better to install KDE from the ports collection > rather than using /stand/sysinstall and installing the pre-compiled packages? > I installed the pre-compiled stuff and I'm having the logout problems. > Other than that it seems to work fine so far. I think even the artsd sound > server starts up which actually didn't at first for some reason. Maybe they > still have some kinks to work out. LOL, yes more than a few kinks. If I were to assign a star for install difficulty on a scale of 0-10, KDE2 would be a 11.5. However, once you get it installed properly, it seems to work ok. I think KDE-2 is shaking everything down and there are patches coming out for these side modules, You won't get them with a package install. You have to be cvsup'ing your ports to see if you are out of date. So, I don't believe sysinstall will do a adequate job at this point. I would compare KDE-2 with FreeBSD 3.0-release. That may be unfair but I'm not sure which product that will be true for :). I didn't have any problems with FreeBSD 3.1. What I read is that a 0.1 version is coming out RSN and perhaps it will work better from the package environment. The more feedback, the better it becomes. If you have a slow computer, it will seem to take forever to do the builds. A really slow computer would almost have to wait for the updated packages. For example, my P-II 400 with 256MB of memory was compiling for about 12 hours straight. With the ratios of 2 applied, a P-200 would take 48 hours. What I did is use the equivalent of /usr/ports/sysutils/pib and "pkg_version -v" to track down the dependancies. I started at the top and worked to the bottom doing pkg_delete's and make cleans. Then I built them back up. When I got the non-kde dependancies built, the rest was pretty easy. All I did was a make and make install in /usr/x11/kde2. Once you start each make, all you can do then is go off and find something else to do. When I came back much later, it was through building and it worked. When patches for kdemultimedia2 came out, you only had to rebuild it. I haven't seen a package version at that level. Kent > > Joey > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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