Re: Fwd: KDE 2.2

[Devon <devon tuxfan homeip net>]

On Friday 31 August 2001 11:00 am, John Aldrich wrote:
> On Friday 31 August 2001 10:27 am, you wrote:
> > I recompiled all those programs listed on that help page.... of
> > course I did it before I saw all this, but I am using Kde 2.2, with
> > 7.1 On a PIII 500, it took about 29 hours for all the packages to
> > compile.

Koffice alone took over 3 hours to build the source and binary rpms on 
a PIII-800 with 396 megs of ram. :)

> > Had to mess with kdebase, and kdeadmin to make them compile
> > properly.   But in the end I have 150 megs of kde 2.2 rpms,
> > targetted to a 686. =)

Once I installed the other packages listed on that help page, kdeadmin 
is the only package that gave me trouble. Rebuilding the rpm (after 
solving one minor rpm build error), took care of the deps. What I 
haven't done yet is to build a compatible version of 
kdebindings-python. I just haven't had the time to fool with it, nor 
have I run into a situation where I need it. ;)

> Kewl. :-) Well, I'm still debating on whether I should just install
> Roswell or try to upgrade to KDE2.2 on RH 7.1. :-) Either way it's
> going to probably involve some headaches. :-)

I have a machine that went from Wolverine -> Seawolf -> Roswell -> 
Roswell2. All with very little difficulty. The main problem was a non 
working up2date under Roswell, which RedHat quickly responded to and 
solved. Having used Roswell(2) for a while, I probably wouldn't 
hesitate to upgrade my Seawolf machine to Roswell(2). However, at this 
stage, I'm just going to wait for the final release of (Insert name of 
final public release here.)

-D