Subject: Re: YDL vs SuSe 7.0 PPC
From: Charles Stevenson (csteven@terraplex.com)
Date: Tue Nov 07 2000 - 08:43:00 MST
On Tuesday 07 November 2000 08:27, you wrote:
> Thank you : ) Please let us know, where and when we can it from..
I have a few rpms up at: http://www.metaltux.org/~core/files/RPMS/combined/
One would need RPM4 and a bit of experience to install them I assume...
Charles
> 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
This archive was generated by hypermail 2a24 : Tue Nov 07 2000 - 08:43:04 MST