Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2004 20:15:32 -0500 (EST) From: Dru <dlavigne6@sympatico.ca> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: KDE3 Message-ID: <20040208201459.O795@genisis.domain.org> In-Reply-To: <20040209010415.GA23920@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20040208195302.F710@genisis.domain.org> <20040209010415.GA23920@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Your random fortune: Schnuffel, n.: A dog's practice of continuously nuzzling in your crotch in mixed company. -- Rich Hall, "Sniglets" On Sun, 8 Feb 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 08:03:06PM -0500, Dru wrote: > > > > Okay, who can help an unhappy camper with their KDE3 on 5-1 Release? > > > > After 2 days of unsuccessful portupgrading from KDE2 to KDE3, I decided to > > go the packages route. About that time, I discovered the upgrade FAQ for > > FreeBSD/KDE which said to get rid of all KDE2 and qt2 cruft. I did. I then > > installed the kdebase and dependency packages from fruitsalad.org. > > > > When that didn't work, I figured, heh, I have too many ports installed > > anyways. Time for a clean sweep. I uninstalled everything (except pine and > > fetchmail and lynx and XFree86-4). > > > > Installed kdebase, kdelibs and necessary dependencies, all as packages. > > > > When I "startx", I start with this error: > > > > "Could not start kdeinit. Check your installation". That one seems to be > > popular according to Google, but no solutions yet. So, I commented out that > > section in /usr/local/bin/kdeinit. Now I'm back to the same error message > > I was at three days ago: > > > > ELF interpreter /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 > > > > Can't blame it on an old dependency anymore, since I uninstalled pretty > > near everything. Any suggestions anyone? > > The packages are built for 5.2. > > Kris > Thanks. (blush) Didn't want to upgrade this system yet. Guess it depends on whether or not I can get KDE2 back on... Dru
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