Installing KDE Unstable on Redhat 9.0




Download konstruct http://konsole.kde.org/konstruct/

Untar it

cd konstruct
cvs up -dP

problem is that QT errors out so have to do this seperate

tar -jxvf qt-x11-free-3.2.3.tar.bz2

mv qt-x11-free-3.2.3 /opt/bin


Download konstruct http://konsole.kde.org/konstruct/

Untar it

cd konstruct
cvs up -dP

Build QT

problem is that QT errors out so have to do this seperate

tar -jxvf qt-x11-free-3.2.3.tar.bz2

mv qt-x11-free-3.2.3 /opt/bin

# add this to ~/.bash_profile
QTDIR=/opt/qt
MANPATH=$QTDIR/doc/man:$MANPATH
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$QTDIR/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
PATH=$QTDIR/bin:$PATH:$HOME/bin
export PATH QTDIR MANPATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH

source ~/.bash_profile

Then cd into konstruct/kde/kdebase and run make install this will give you a bare bones installation

cd konstruct/kde/kdebase
make install

Some instructions are located in the following link also the khelpcenter has some good instructions also

http://developer.kde.org/build/compile_kde3_1.html

touch ~/.xsession

put startkde into it I put the full path

/home/james/kde3.1.2/bin/startkde

Create a executeable file /etc/profile.d/mykde.sh with the correct env vars in it as follows.

#!/bin/sh

KDEHOME=$HOME/kde
QTDIR="/home/james/kde3.1.2"
KDEDIR="/home/james/kde3.1.2"
KDEDIRS="/home/james/kde3.1.2"

if ! echo ${PATH} | grep -q "$KDEDIR/bin" ; then

        PATH="$KDEDIR/bin:$PATH"

fi

export KDEDIR KDEDIRS KDEHOME PATH