I like Redhat... hate RPMs.

Well, I will be trying Quanta soon myself.  I spent this whole weekend
installing KDE2.2 on my Redhat 7.1 workstation at home.

The reason it is taking all weekend is because of my disliek for RPMs and
the fact 7.1 comes with KDE2.1 and I wanted to run 2.2 and the dependencies
wouldn't let me upgrade, I decided to compile KDE2.2 myself.

If ANYONE is considering this, have plenty of time and big hardware.

My workstation is a Dell Precision 220.  It is dual 800 MHZ with 256MB RAM.
It took way over an hour to compile the qt-x11 libraries.  Way over another
hour to compile kdelibs and way over another hour to compile kdebase.

There were also a bunch of other misc. libraries I had to download and
compile... libxml2, audiofile, etc.  Then, the full amount of KDE packages
to compile are extensive.  I started another one up this morning before
work... I still have 10 packages .tar.gz files to go.

Also, I started compiling KDE2.2 yesterday afternoon.

The reason I wasted most of my weekend was because I couldn't get the KDE2.1
to work originally with the RedHat7.1 CD.

Found out it was a kernel issue.  2.4.2 kernel panics on the i810 integrated
soundcard if a sound is played.  After Saturday and Sunday, I found this out
(actually, it is nearly specific to the Dell Precision 220 line).  I pulled
down the 2.4.9 kernel code and upgraded.  I reinstalled redhat, booted to
the new kernel and KDE2.1 worked.  But I couldn't upgrade to KDE2.2.

I uninstalled KDE and now I'm at the point of compiling KDE from scratch.

So... the moral of the story is... what was ti again... oh yeah, RPMs suck.

After KDE2.2 is working, I'll try Quanta.  See how much luck I have going
the compile route as opposed to the RPM rotue with KDE.
Just amazing the length of time it is taking to compile.

VP of Color LaserJet Printing
and also Systems Engineer
Adam Lang

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nate LaClaire" <nate@m...>
To: "professional php" <pro_php@p...>
Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 3:50 PM
Subject: [pro_php] RE: PHP/Web IDE


> That explains it - I'm using RH Linux 7.x as well (not sure of the x). At
> least it's not me. That's good to know.
>
> I've had problems installing other programs where the required libraries
> aren't installed, or are but can't be found - even when I told the program
> exactly where they were. I don't know what RedHat did, but it sure has
> caused me plenty of problems. (I still stand behind them 200% though.
:-) )
>
> I'll play around with it when I get back...
>
> Nate
>
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> > > Adam et. al.,
> > >
> > > I wanted to let everyone know that I had some trouble
> > > installing the Quanta package for KDE2. I haven't had time to
> > > go back in and try to get it to work. I'll be out all next
> > > week, but I'm hoping to work with it this weekend and when I
> > > get back. I'll let you all know what I discover.
> > >
> > > Has anyone else tried it?
> > >
> >
> > I too had problems trying to install it.  I have a iso install of Redhat
> > 7.1 on a machine which has KDE2 but apparently certain dev libraries
> > aren't installed.  I CVS'ed those and compiled (took an hour or so) and
> > then that got me through make but then linking choked.  Don't recall
> > exactly why.  I may try again...but will probably wait for the final
> > release.
> >
> > I'd be interested if anyone got this to work as well.
> >
> > Happy laborious day to all,
> > B.Page