Install automake 1.5
Install libxml2 & libxslt latest versions
Download konstruct
http://konsole.kde.org/konstruct/
Untar it
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