Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 21:59:03 +0200 From: ABDALLAH Faycal <faycal.abdallah@cegetel.fr> To: "'Lauri Watts'" <lauri@kde.org>, Faissal ABDALLAH <abdallah.faissal@wanadoo.fr> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: kde 3.0 wo'nt start on FreeBSD 4.5 Message-ID: <8D7497BD530FD2119D040000F6B656D40BCFFF6A@MINOS>
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-----Message d'origine----- De: Lauri Watts [mailto:lauri@kde.org] Date: jeudi 20 juin 2002 21:43 À: Faissal ABDALLAH Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Objet: Re: kde 3.0 wo'nt start on FreeBSD 4.5 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 20 June 2002 21.47, Faissal ABDALLAH wrote: > Hi list, > I'm actually trying to intall KDE 3.0 from source packages on a FreeBSD 4.5 > machine.... i followed the instructions word by word lettre by lettre and > after lots and lots of problems and incompatibility i managed to install > the qt 3.0.4 and the autoconf etc... and all necessary packages for the KDE >It's quite clear you didn't follow the FreeBSD instructions, >because Qt 3.0.4 >is not in the ports (and that is for a reason - it has >issues.) i installed the QT 3.0.4 from source files and it didn't compile well with make but the compilation completed with gmake >I suggest you uninstall all that you have below, put the source tarballs you >have collected into /usr/ports/distfiles/KDE (so that the ports can find >them), and then install the kde ports themselves. i'm a little bit confused, i put the KDE sources packages in /usr/local/distfiles/kde and then update my ports collection?? >If you have sufficient bandwidth, you can use the packages (I'm not sure they >are ready yet on the FreeBSD ftp servers, but you can find a set of packages >and the instructions at http://freebsd.kde.org.) >The ports exist for a reason - among other things, they have patches to make >applications conform to FreeBSD's file system organization, to adjust the >environment, and are a configuration we know to work on the majority of >systems. It's very difficult to support self-compilation, because there is >just too much in your environment and in your compilation options that could >be affecting this. >- From a look at your log, it seems KDE starts up correctly, and then some of >the applications hit an issue with threads. I suggest you see if the problem >persists with an installation from the ports, but I suspect it won't, they >have been heavily tested, and I've never seen your particular error before. don't you think it's the same error that happened with the kde 2.2.2 ports about a "DCOP server not running" thing?? >Regards, >- -- >Lauri Watts >KDE Documentation: http://i18n.kde.org/doc/ >KDE on FreeBSD: http://freebsd.kde.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9EjBe/gUyA7PWnacRAgIhAJ9zoOv/gXT389S1OGkNEGx3tsGHRACcC2zA zSAxdB0x5j+Knx0Dz1RS8TM= =xCft -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the messagehelp
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