Hi all

I decided to format and start again with KDE due to some wierd errors i was getting. I setup the system and emerged xorg-x11 and then emerged kde-meta with the flags that they needed. I got a prompt from emerge kde-meta saying "x11-libs/qt-3 use flag opengl needed" or something like that, so i added opengl to make.conf and no matter how hard i try to re emerge xorg-x11 with newuse on or off it wont do it!

Which order should i install things? Drivers then X then KDE? im just trying to get it to work as best as possible!

Julius

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kde-config.xml would be a good place to start. Read through the docs to see your options.

Try the following
After that try emerging KDE.

QT is not part of Xorg.

Hey,
Makes sense with it not being a part of Xorg but kde, would explain my issue as i did not emerge --newuse kde-meta haha.

since ive added opengl to make.conf should i emerge --newuse world or emerge --newuse kde-meta?

'world' seems to be the right target, other packages are probably affected too. 'emerge -aNDv world'

can someone comment on the best order to install packages? Im setting up my mothers computer which is a P3 600mhz so i cant really afford to recompile everything all the time. I was hoping to just type something like: emerge xorg-x11 && emerge xfce(whatever its called) && emerge *whatever else*, and just leave it sitting fora few days. Which flags do i need or should i just look at doc's and gentoo portage info.

From that KDE page you sent me, it didnt list anything about opengl however i guess if i looked at the package tree i would have found something.

Anyways its fun learning :P ill try these commands at home tonight
Julius

I think i figured it out.
I must have synced emerge inbetween instilations because the error i got was an incorrect/no version of some kdelib file was installed, so i emerged kde-libs && emerge kde-meta and ran off to work.

Hopefully it will all work out for me.