kde2/3 install

[Pam R]

On Sunday 27 October 2002 11:14 am, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> I'm going to compile kde3 from source as I've compiled kde2 before many
> times with good success.
> But I'm always very cautious and like to save a backup in case things
> crash.  Since installing 3 is not like just upgrading 2, I'd like to
> know the following:
> 99% of what gets compiled ends up in (depending on your choice)
> /opt/kde3.
> But there are "some" executables and maybe some scripts? that get
> written that can really make a mess unless they can be backed up
> and reinstalled to get back to 2 if need be.  Does anyone know for dead
> certain which things these are??  Are they environment-variable
> dependent??
> Thanks!

Are you compiling from cvs or from a recent tarball (3.1 RC1 should be out 
fairly soon), and are you already running some version of kde3, and on what 
base distro ?

If you haven't seen it already you may find 
http://developer.kde.org/build/build2ver.html useful. They say to install the 
latest version as a new user, and that approach certainly overcomes a lot of 
niggly problems.
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