I am running Red Hat 9 on an IBM Thinkpad A20m, I decided to attempt to install KDE as a windows manager and have had no luck so far. When I do ./configure for KDE it tells me I need dcopidl. I try to do ./configure for dcopild and it tells me I need a c compiler. Where do I go for that? Shouldn't I already have one?? I'm a bit confused... As for the message about not having dcopidl, there was a post with the same problem and same message as I had, but I can't find the file they refer to as a solution either. It is not the same exact set of messages, but it is the same error message in the end. If you have any ideas let me know please:-) Thanks for your help!

kde is supplied with redhat9. just refer to the installation disks.
if you think redhat installed it, try:

$ rpm -qa | grep kde

if a bunch of packages pop up, it's already there.
just logout and choose kde from sessions.

Dont install it from the source i.e tar file. RPM for kde is on your installation cd as bardinjw pointed out. install it from the cd.
rpm -ivh packagename.rpm
cool

I tried the $ rpm -qa | grep kde command and it returned an error. It said the $ command could not be found. Any more ideas? I tried starting it from sessions and it wasnt listed there either. Going to dig up the disks tonight or tomorrow and see if I can find it there.

See the link in my sig for an easy way to get KDE on your machine. Hope you have high speed Internet though, it's a big download.

> I tried the $ rpm -qa | grep kde command and it returned an error.

dont type $ , just type: rpm -qa | grep ....