kde2/3 install

[Pam R]

On Sunday 27 October 2002 3:00 pm, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> 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.

If it helps, I have been building KDE 3 from cvs on a Caldera EW3.1 box for 
since the end of last year and until about 6 weeks ago was able to have just 
one user swapping between kde2 & 3 at login. But the changes they have added 
in going towards 3.1 seem to have broken that approach and I've now got 2 
users, one for kde2 and one for kde3.-almost-1. With just one user, and 
keeping the user's config files separate in ~/.kde2 and ~/.kde3 that just 
leaves ~/.kderc and possibly the Desktop directory as being common between 
the 2 versions of kde.

You will need to update or add quite a few things to be able to compile 3.0.4 
properly. http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-3.0.4.html seems to cover 
most of them, and keeping an eye on the output of ./configure should tell you 
if anything is missing.

BTW, the infamous 'GUI Login Hack' SxS 
(http://linux-sxs.org/kde2loginhack.html) applies to EW3.1 and LTP as well as 
ED2.4 and makes it easy to add kde3 to the GUI login dialog options.

> Did you write a niggly problems SxS yet?
'fraid not, I'm still working on the wiggly and tiggly ones ;-)

Enjoy
-- 
Pam R: Don't put off until tomorrow what you can leave to the day after.
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