KDE 3.2 and Konstruct
 

I've just bought linuxformat magazine (issue 52). In it's first CD it had KDE 3.2 and Konstruct. How exactly do i install kde 3.2 with konstruct? I mean Konstruct is too small and i don't wanna download hunderds of MB over my 64K isdn connection!

What should i do??

PS I use Mandrake 9.2 with default kde. Should i put the files in kde 3.2 source directory in the appropriate konstruct folders? If i upgrade to kde 3.2 will i loose all the settings of my applications such as apollo dvdrip etc etc?

if you read the magazine it tells you
 

I read it, it tells you that in order to avoid downloading all the packages you have to set a configuration file for Konstruct (it's in the root of the Konstruct directory, one of the .conf files I think) ... you can change the place that construct looks for the files ...

HTH

You might also like to see http://linuxquestions.org/questions/...hreadid=163675 about my experiences, everything is working for me except sound!

I found that Konstruct was just confusing things too much so I went for a manual CLI install, YMMV.

pbhj

Installing on Slackware.

I gave up on Konstruct couldn't find away around it wanting a bz2 package called pkgconfigure whether from the CD or wget/ftp.

Did a manual CLI ./configure; make; make install.

Got kdelibs, kdebase, kdepim, arts compiled, from the CD, enough to get KD3.2 up and running. I gave up when the make kept falling over trying to comple AtlantikDesigner.

On my machine it took several days to compile! Had to recompile ALSA for some reason to get sound back.

Just for the hell of it downloaded the tarballs for Slackware from a kde mirror site. OK I've got broadband so it didn't take too long. Really you only need the arts, kdelib and kdebase balls to get a working system.

Basically a trade off between downloading speeds and compiling even on a narrowband connection, assuming it doesn't drop out, it would have been quicker for me to download the compiled files than compile them myself from the CD.

Probably confused the issue!

AK

New Slackware user

Same thing here with a SuSE system. I'm having trouble with the QT libraries but I think I got further than the original poster.

First my question - I get the error can't find libqt-mt.

I've compiled QT 3.2.3 with thread support and I have the libqt-mt.so library. For some reason I can't seem to get Konstruct to recognize it. I've copied it to the /usr/lib directory. What more do I need to do?

I failed with Konstruct - see above. Konstruct is probably used by the developers a bit like garnome for gnome - not for the faint hearted, Have you tried your local friendly mirror site? Like
http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.kd...le/3.2.1/SuSE/
If you've got a broadband or anytime connection it may save you a lot of effort.

I did and I got KDE up and running in just a couple of hours, Whereas with Konstruct I gave up after a couple of attempts and manually compiling took a couple of days although I did get a working KDE at the end of it.

AK