Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 17:20:52 -0700 (PDT) From: patl@phoenix.volant.org To: "Bond, Jeffery" <Jeff.Bond@nectech.co.uk> Cc: "'FreeBSD questions'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "'Genius@glasgow.crosswinds.net'" <Genius@glasgow.crosswinds.net> Subject: Re:What to do with KDE......... Message-ID: <ML-3.3.898647652.4978.patl@asimov> In-Reply-To: <711344C31ACDD1118B94006097827D5B05709C@EXCHANGE>
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> >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.... > ... > > 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 <ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/Beta4/distribution/tgz/source>; > and download the latest version from there. The files you have downloaded > look close to the required files (apart from the size). Yes, they do look small. Small enough to make me suspect that they are the ports directories rather than the distfiles. If so, they should be expanded into the appropriate sub-directories of /usr/ports; at which point a 'make' in /usr/ports/x11/kde should handle fetching the distfiles and building the various packages. -Pat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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