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Old 12-06-2005, 04:25 PM   #16
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It works fine for me on KDE 3.5 and I didn't have to recompile it.
Can you see the applet if you click no kicker and go to "Add Applet"?
 
Old 12-06-2005, 04:37 PM   #17
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Can you see the applet if you click no kicker and go to "Add Applet"?
Yes its listed as kbfxvista.
 
Old 12-06-2005, 04:39 PM   #18
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Weird, I can't get it to come up at all.

I complie it alright and make and make install goes just fine..

maybe I will have to try to install to different direcotyr.. maybe /opt/kde3

What you think?
 
Old 12-06-2005, 05:14 PM   #19
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Weird, I can't get it to come up at all.

I complie it alright and make and make install goes just fine..

maybe I will have to try to install to different direcotyr.. maybe /opt/kde3

What you think?
Yeah, I got it. Since I am running SuSE and I noticed during the install it never looked at /opt/kde3 I just added the --prefix=/opt/kde3 and all went well.
 
Old 12-06-2005, 06:38 PM   #20
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Yeah, I got it. Since I am running SuSE and I noticed during the install it never looked at /opt/kde3 I just added the --prefix=/opt/kde3 and all went well.
The best way to compile KDE apps is the following
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$./configure --prefix=`kde-config --prefix`
$make
#make install
If you use that method on any distro, the KDE app will be installed in the right prefix.
 
Old 12-06-2005, 09:21 PM   #21
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I had problems with kbfx-0.3.8rc2. Athough it compiled just fine and the pic worked, It did not pop up the kmenu. The other 2 menus worked fine. So I compiled 3.7.2 and it worked fine. It has not the features 3.8 has, but it is simple and it works. For me, the simplier the better.

Thank you guys for the help.
 
Old 12-06-2005, 09:44 PM   #22
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[qoute]
Warning: This is a version that is constantly developing and there will be bugs.
Try this only if you want to use bleeding edge software.Remember that
you must understand urpmi before do any installation. Never use --force
if you do, it can break.[/quote]

that was from the link you gave me reddazz
what is the latest stable version for kde
and actually i did NOT understand a single step listed there

and i thought that it is better for me to wait for the next mandriva distribution which will probably have 3.5 or more

i know i will be one step late but i don't want to mess up my disto.
Last edited by AGazzaz; 12-06-2005 at 09:52 PM.
 
Old 12-06-2005, 09:49 PM   #23
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Warning: This is a version that is constantly developing and there will be bugs.
Try this only if you want to use bleeding edge software.Remember that
you must understand urpmi before do any installation. Never use --force
if you do, it can break.

that was from the link you gave me reddazz
what is the latest stable version for kde
and actually i did NOT understand a single step listed there
If you didn't understand the steps listed there, then its too risky for you to try the upgrade. The warining is there so that people know that there could be potential problems with doing such a big upgrade.
 
Old 12-06-2005, 10:15 PM   #24
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one more question
where can i find cynapses the system monitor and what is relatation between it and superkaramba

thank you very much for your help
 
Old 12-06-2005, 10:22 PM   #25
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kde-look.org as I mentiond in one of my posts. Cynapses is a superkaramba theme.
 
Old 12-07-2005, 12:13 AM   #26
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i have been googling since your reply nearly 2 hours now
first i got a dependency problem with installing superkaramba
Code:
Superkaramba can't be compiled
because of missing Python libraries/headers.
i looked for python-devel in rpmdrake and i didn't find it {i installed anything got python and no luck}

i found this link
http://www.python.org/2.2.3/rpms.html

and still the same superkaramba error and i am out of ideas

i hope i am not giving you a headache
 
Old 12-07-2005, 03:23 AM   #27
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It's IceWM + theming
Lol right....
 
Old 12-07-2005, 05:19 AM   #28
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Quote:
Originally Posted by AGazzaz
i have been googling since your reply nearly 2 hours now
first i got a dependency problem with installing superkaramba
Code:
Superkaramba can't be compiled
because of missing Python libraries/headers.
i looked for python-devel in rpmdrake and i didn't find it {i installed anything got python and no luck}

i found this link
http://www.python.org/2.2.3/rpms.html

and still the same superkaramba error and i am out of ideas

i hope i am not giving you a headache
If you are using Mandriva, then setup more rpm sources (main, updates, contrib and plf repositories) using the instructions available here. Once thats done, do "urpmi superkaramba" as root and your package should install automatically. YOu can also install it using rpmdrake.
 
Old 12-07-2005, 07:17 AM   #29
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i am still facing dependecies problems and thank god i sovled them all using rpmfind.net

now just for the record i will post my whole trip
Code:
[root@localhost My Downloads]# urpmi superkaramba-0.37-0.rc1.1mdk.src.rpm
Some package requested cannot be installed:
superkaramba-0.37-0.rc1.1mdk.src (due to unsatisfied xmms-devel)
Continue? (Y/n) n
[root@localhost My Downloads]# urpmi libxmms1-devel-1.2.10-20mdk.i586.rpm
Some package requested cannot be installed:
libxmms1-devel-1.2.10-20mdk.i586 (due to unsatisfied devel(libgtk-1.2))
Continue? (Y/n) n
[root@localhost My Downloads]# urpmi libgtk+1.2-devel-1.2.10-41mdk.i586.rpm
Some package requested cannot be installed:
libgtk+1.2-devel-1.2.10-41mdk.i586 (due to unsatisfied devel(libglib-1.2))
Continue? (Y/n) n
[root@localhost My Downloads]# urpmi libglib1.2-devel-1.2.10-15mdk.i586.rpm

installing libglib1.2-devel-1.2.10-15mdk.i586.rpm
Preparing...                     #############################################
      1/1: libglib1.2-devel      #############################################
[root@localhost My Downloads]# urpmi libgtk+1.2-devel-1.2.10-41mdk.i586.rpm

installing libgtk+1.2-devel-1.2.10-41mdk.i586.rpm
Preparing...                     #############################################
      1/1: libgtk+1.2-devel      #############################################
[root@localhost My Downloads]# urpmi libxmms1-devel-1.2.10-20mdk.i586.rpm

installing libxmms1-devel-1.2.10-20mdk.i586.rpm
Preparing...                     #############################################
      1/1: libxmms1-devel        #############################################
[root@localhost My Downloads]# urpmi superkaramba-0.37-0.rc1.1mdk.src.rpm

warning: superkaramba-0.37-0.rc1.1mdk.src.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 26752624
[root@localhost My Downloads]#
now i don't know how to solve this new problem (NOKEY, key ID 26752624)
i did not know that having a really nice desktop needs such hard work
you really have to be proud of your linux desktop
Last edited by AGazzaz; 12-07-2005 at 07:19 AM.
 
Old 12-07-2005, 08:40 AM   #30
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Follow instructions as they are written down. The command I posted above is,
Code:
#urpmi superkaramba
Do not install rpms with a *.src.rpm extension because they are source rpms and not binary rpms.
Last edited by reddazz; 12-07-2005 at 08:42 AM.
 
  


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