upgrading my KDE desktop

digital bots · 09-05-2002, 09:09 AM

I went to the site and there are so many files for the new KDE which one should i get or do i get one of them and run an install and it will auto compile it all for me?

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forget it, it says that slackeware 8.0 cant run the newest kde.

Mara · 09-05-2002, 02:48 PM

Why? Every distro can! You just need to compile the source code. You need qt (from trolltech.com), arts, kdelibs, kdebase. After compiling them you'll have a working KDE. But there are much more packages. Decide which ones you'd like and compile them after.
Note that you need to compile qt with --thread.
All packages are just ./configure;make;make install.

Aussie · 09-05-2002, 05:52 PM

As long as you have qt3 you can install kde-3.1-beta1.

Mara · 09-06-2002, 09:47 AM

For a normal work 3.0.3 is better. For people who like testing - 3.1beta.