kde2/3 install

[Tony Alfrey]

On Sunday 27 October 2002 05:31 am,Pam R wrote:
> 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!

Ah, good!  Pam Roberts, the expert on kde boot-up!

>
> Are you compiling from cvs or from a recent tarball (3.1 RC1 should
> be out fairly soon), 

I downloaded the 3.0.4 archives because kde says it's "stable"

> and are you already running some version of
> kde3, 

No kde3 yet

> and on what base distro ?

That Caldera pre-3.0 thing Linux Technology Preview

>
> 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.

I'm really tempted to do that to at least see that it works and then I 
can slog through all the boot scripts to clean up the Caldera boot mess.
Did you write a niggly problems SxS yet?

-- 
Tony Alfrey
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"I'd rather be sailing"