I installed kde 3.1 from source, it looks like everything went in fine, however when try to start KDE, here's what I get

I get to a screen that has a window stating 'Could not start kdeinit. Check your configuration', I click the 'OK' and it goes back to the command line with the folloing errors

/opt/kde-3.1/bin/startkde: lnusertemp: command not found
/opt/kde-3.1/bin/startkde: lnusertemp: command not found
/opt/kde-3.1/bin/startkde: dcopserver_shutdown: command not found
startkde: starting up...
/opt/kde-3.1/bin/startkde: kreadconfig: command not found
/opt/kde-3.1/bin/startkde: ksplash: command not found
/opt/kde-3.1/bin/startkde: kdeinit: command not found
startkde: Could not start kdeinit. Check your configuration
/opt/kde-3.1/bin/startkde: kwrapper: command not found
startkde: shutting down...
/opt/kde-3.1/bin/startkde: kdeinit_shutdown: command not found
/opt/kde-3.1/bin/startkde: dcopserver_shutdown: command not found
/opt/kde-3.1/bin/startkde: artsshell: command not found
startkde: running shutdown scripts
/opt/kde-3.1/bin/startkde: kde-config: command not found
startkde: done


All the files listed are there, but kde just will not startup
I could really use some help, I've been fighting this for sever weeks now

John

What OS is this? It looks like your system doesn't see the files or they aren't there. Try a quick reboot or enter "ldconfig" for a rescan of libraries. Do a slocate -u, then slocate kdeinit to see if it's actually installed.

If no, then install with rpm -Uvh --nodeps --force *.rpm for all your KDE rpm binaries(not source of course). Then reboot again. I know.. the rebooting thing. But kde is a finicky bitch. It's worth it.