Subject: Re: YDL vs SuSe 7.0 PPC
From: Charles Stevenson (csteven@terraplex.com)
Date: Tue Nov 07 2000 - 08:21:33 MST
KDE2 is built. Dont need testers. If I get time I will make an RPM 3 version.
Regards,
Charles
On Monday 06 November 2000 19:52, you wrote:
> 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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