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		-- 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