From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 28 16:27:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA22826 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 28 May 1998 16:27:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from server.computeralt.com (server.computeralt.com [207.41.29.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA22785 for ; Thu, 28 May 1998 16:26:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scott@computeralt.com) Received: from scott (scott@scott.computeralt.com [207.41.29.100]) by server.computeralt.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA23131 for ; Thu, 28 May 1998 19:26:54 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199805282326.TAA23131@server.computeralt.com> X-Sender: scott@mail.computeralt.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0.1 Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 19:26:52 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Scott I. Remick" Subject: Problems installing KDE Beta 4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ok, there's seems to be no consensus on how to go about installing KDE. Here's my situation: I just installed a fresh 2.2.6 install over FTP. So far, so good. I have XFree86 running fine with the default window manager (ugh). I've gathered from reading around that I do NOT want to install from the files downloaded from the KDE website. Instead, use the ports from the FreeBSD site. Very well... Using /stand/sysintall, the port version listed is 3.1. Not what I want (4.1). The version listed in /usr/ports/x11/kde is also 3.1 :( The version listed at http://www.freebsd.org/ports/x11.html is 4.1. YES. HOWEVER... it gets confusing. There are a bunch of files (kdebase, kdelibs, giflib, jpeg, qt) that are needed, and order is unclear. Ahh... but the "meta-port" claims to be a one-stop shop to get KDE installed. So I download the 4.1 metaport. And I start installing it... only to see it start trying to grab 3.1 files. BAD... (it can't find them anyways). I abort. Ok, so I'll try it by hand... install the individual packages by-hand, in the best order I can figure. giflib, jpeg, and qt all installed fine. Looks like the next is kdelibs... go to install it, and I get errors. It requires bzip2, which it fetches, then bails on an md5/checksum error. Grrr... OK what the heck do I need to do to get 4.1 running? Thanks in advance... ----------------------- Scott I. Remick (MCP, A+, HP) mailto:scott@computeralt.com Network Systems Administrator (802)388-7545 FAX:(802)388-3697 Computer Alternatives, Inc. http://www.computeralt.com Theater is life. Television is furniture. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message