Re: YDL vs SuSe 7.0 PPC


Subject: Re: YDL vs SuSe 7.0 PPC
From: Tony Yazbeck (tyazbeck@bigfoot.com)
Date: Tue Nov 07 2000 - 08:27:15 MST


Thank you : ) Please let us know, where and when we can it from..

Regards,

Tony

> From: Charles Stevenson <csteven@terraplex.com>
> Organization: Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 08:21:33 -0700
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: Re: YDL vs SuSe 7.0 PPC
>
> 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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