From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 23 07:10:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA18777 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 07:10:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ingate.uk.neceur.com (ingate.uk.neceur.com [193.116.254.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA18698 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 07:10:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Jeff.Bond@nectech.co.uk) Received: from internal-mail.uk.neceur.com by ingate.uk.neceur.com id PAA04328; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 15:01:40 +0100 (BST) Received: from exchange.nectech.co.uk by internal-mail.uk.neceur.com id PAA28595; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 15:06:20 +0100 (BST) Received: by EXCHANGE with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1460.8) id ; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 15:07:47 +0100 Message-ID: <711344C31ACDD1118B94006097827D5B05709C@EXCHANGE> From: "Bond, Jeffery" To: "'FreeBSD questions'" Cc: "'Genius@glasgow.crosswinds.net'" Subject: RE:What to do with KDE......... Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 15:07:45 +0100 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1460.8) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ian O'Friel wrote: >Hi People, > >I recently downloaded all necessary files for KDE from the FreeBSD ftp >server (When I say neccesary, I mean what was marked as required on the >web-site) Here is a list of the files I downloaded and there sizes...... > >kdebase.tar - 69Kb >jpeg.tar - 10Kb >kbiff.tar - 12Kb >kde.tar - 6Kb >giflib.tar - 14Kb >kdegames.tar - 44Kb >kdegraphics.tar - 19Kb >kdelibs.tar - 17Kb >kdenetwork.tar - 30Kb >kdesupport.tar - 12Kb >kdeutils.tar - 19Kb >kpilot.tar - 85Kb >uulib.tar - 14Kb >I would now like to know what to do with them, I have made an attempt to >install them using TAR and MAKE but bothed failed with various error >messages...... > >Can someone tell me where the files need to go and what order to they need >to be unTARred in and what order do they need to be MAKEd in an whatever.... > >Thanx >Ian O'Friel The sizes of those files looks suspiciously small. I have got KDE installed and I'm sure each file was at least 500K. Also, did you download them as .tar files? (i.e. not .tar.gz or .tgz files?). I would go directly to the KDE site and download the latest version from there. The files you have downloaded look close to the required files (apart from the size). I found that you need to compile and install each part in the correct order for this to work. After untarring each file, you probably need to do the following to get them installed (don't just take my word for it though, read the README): ./configure make make install I think that kdelib, kdesupport, kdebase are the first ones that need compiling, the rest should compile in any order, you'll need to check though. Have fun, Jeff --------------------------------------------------- Jeffery Bond --------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message