From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 21 16:59:42 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3E0C37B411 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 16:59:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from ms-smtp-02.southeast.rr.com (ms-smtp-02.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE89843F93 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 16:59:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bts@fake.com) Received: from mail5.nc.rr.com (fe5 [24.93.67.52]) by ms-smtp-02.southeast.rr.com (8.12.5/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h1M0wBo5018133; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 19:58:11 -0500 (EST) Received: from this.is.fake.com ([24.74.172.220]) by mail5.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Fri, 21 Feb 2003 19:57:32 -0500 Received: by this.is.fake.com (Postfix, from userid 111) id 07388BA06; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 19:59:04 -0500 (EST) From: "Brian T. Schellenberger" To: Gary D Kline Subject: Re: from GNOME to KDE Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 19:59:04 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 Cc: Gary D Kline , David Cramblett , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20030221191832.GA37921@tao.thought.org> <200302211901.56064.bts@babbleon.org> <20030222004233.GA38989@tao.thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20030222004233.GA38989@tao.thought.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200302211959.04441.bts@babbleon.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday 21 February 2003 07:42 pm, Gary D Kline wrote: | On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 07:01:55PM -0500, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote: | > On Friday 21 February 2003 03:25 pm, Gary D Kline wrote: | > | On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 11:24:34AM -0800, David Cramblett wrote: | > | > if you have KDE installed, try the program switchdesk on Linux. | > | | > | Well, I asked for Gnome and that's all my friend | > | installed. | > | | > | Where can I pull down a KDE3 *.rpm file? | > | (This is RH v 8.0, so KDE3 should work if | > | I can find it. | > | > Umm . . . if this is RH 8.0 why are you posting on a FreeBSD list? | > | > For Freebsd, the easiest thing to do (thought it doesn't actually | > get the *latest* KDE) is | > | > pkg_add -r kde3 | > | > Or, if you have more time to install it (this is easy but it takes | > a LOT of time--many hours), you can get 3.1 with | > | > cd /usr/ports/*/kde3 | > make install | | Well, I'd like to get KDE on one of my platforms. At least | one reason KDE3 fails here is that the newest QT is broken. I | could get an earlier vrsion, but I'll wait. Are you sure? I installed it from ports just a couple of days ago, and the current (ported) Qt and kde3 worked just fine for me. -- Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message