I am very new to linux, but am very interested in what it has to offer... If i could just get the KDE GUI to work!

This is what happens...

I instaled Slackware 9.0 on my rig and that went without a hitch. I thought that it was all smooth sailing from there untill i came to the command line and entered "startx".
It began to load and goes to what looks like the GUI but then before loading fully i get a window that states:

"Could not start kdeinit. Check your installation."

When i press ok and read the text of what it was doing it says it could not load because:

"Error while loading shared libraries: libqt-mt.so.3: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory"

Any help? Should go through and re-install (loading everything took a long time).

If you need anymore info just ask. I have been messing around with LiveCD's of many distro's and i liked Slackware better then knoppix, etc. I would really like to get it up and running on my rig!

Thanx in advance.

Did you do a selective install? That should be part of the qt package. Probably in the 'l' part of the disk. On 9.1 libqt-mt.so.3 is from the qt-3.2.1-i486-1 package and should be installed in /usr/lib/qt-3.2.1/lib/. (Not sure why I have it, except that doing without KDE/Gnome entirely seems to be impossible. Probably needed it for some qt app or another.) Try 'xwmconfig' and picking a window manager maybe, just to see if X will come up at all, though that's kind of irrelevant to your problem.

-- My mistake - qt is in /kde.

Kudos to you digiot!!!!
I xwmconfig'ed and selected gnome as my default... Then typed startx and gnome works great! I would have liked to use KDE but at least i am up and running now!

I will still have to look into the problem a little deeper, but thanks for the command!

Sure, no problem. But if you want KDE and we know X works, it probably is just a missing lib. If you have Slack from CD, try su'ing, mounting it and 'cd /mnt/cdrom/slackware/kde' or whatever and then 'installpkg qt<tab>gz'. It might even be a present lib and a missing link. If you do have a libqt-mt.so.* on your system, but no libqt-mt.so.3, try making a symlink, since that's what libqt-mt.so.3 seems to be. In my case it points to 3.2.1 - in your case I think it's 3.1.2. It may be more complicated and you'd need guru help, but it may be that simple.