Subject: Re: YDL vs SuSe 7.0 PPC
From: Patrick Callahan (pac1@tiac.net)
Date: Mon Nov 06 2000 - 19:52:30 MST
Tony Yazbeck wrote:
> Thanks to all of you who responded. The declared winner is officially:
>
> YDL
>
> I will stick to that too....now if anyone can help getting it updated to KDE
> 2, I would be much appreciating.
I have a dual YDL installation on a Blue G3 rev1. One of the installations is
avalable for experimentation.
If you'd like to work through this with me, maybe we can get it going, or get to a
point where we know what questions to ask the experts at YDL.
Preliminary question for YDL development:
1. What's your status on KDE 2.0?
2. Need testers?
Questions asked and answered
1: What sources are required for KDE2?
The latest release of KDE is available from
http://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/latest/distribution/
1a: Are the qt libraries included in the distribution?
1b: What else:
To compile the current version of KDE you need:
Automake 1.4 and Autoconf 2.13
On YDL 1.2:
$ automake --version
automake (GNU automake) 1.4
$ autoconf --version
Autoconf version 2.13
C++ compiler which supports exceptions (preferably egcs 1.1.x or
gcc-2.95.x)
On YDL 1.2:
$ gcc --version
2.95.2
bunzip or bunzip2, to decompress .bz2 files. See expired link.
ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/bzip2/v100/bzip2-1.0.1.tar.gz
%cd /usr/src
# copy the tar.gz to /usr/src
$tar -xzvf bzip2-1.0.1.tar.gz
$cd bzip2-1.0.1
$./configure
$make
The above commands assume you have permission to write in
/usr/src
if not do it as root or set up your permissions correctly
$su root
%make install
%bzip2 --version
bzip2, a block-sorting file compressor. Version 1.0.1,
23-June-2000.
If you want SSL support (for instance for secure web sites in konqueror),
make sure you install openssl, version 0.9.5a, 0.9.6 or later.
You do! and while you're at it get zlib and openssh
ftp.openssl.org/source/openssl-0.9.6.tar.gz
ftp.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/zlib/zlib-1.1.3.tar.gz
ftp.openssh.com/pub/OpenBSD/OpenSSH/portable/Openssh-2.2.0p1
the p1 is important.
standard build instructions:
ftp it
copy them to /usr/src
cd /usr/src
tar -xzvf openssl*.gz
tar -xzvf zlib*.gz
tar -xzvf openssh*.gz
cd /usr/src/zlib*
./configure
make
make install
ldconfig
cd /usr/src/openssl*
./configure
make
make install
ldconfig
cd /usr/src/openssh*
./configure
make
make install
ldconfig
More questions we can probably answer for ourselves with a bit of research and
experimentation:
1: continued
For Netscape-plugins support in konqueror, make sure to install lesstif.
What's less-tif? The opposite of Mo-tif? Mo or
less!
I don't have this installed. Do we care?
2: What X servers are supported by 2.0. Will it work with Xfree3.3.6, or is
Xfree 4.01 required. What's lesstif got to do with it.
3. What libraries need upgrading? Does upgrading the libraries break anything?
4. Does anyone know what if anything else breaks when you upgrade to 2.0?
5: How well does KDE 2.0 co-exist with gnome apps?
6: Now that you've got all that stuff how do you build and install kde2.0? Is
there any source modifications needed to get it to build and run on ppc?
7. What happens to your kde 1.x stuff if you do build and install 2.0?
Sources of information:
<a href="http://www.kde.org/install-source.html"> KDE install-source </a>
http://www.kde.org/install-source.html
-Pat
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