KDE Installation
Quick Install
-
Insert your Linux CD and mount the CD, or mount a network file server that
has the Linux distribution on it. We will assume that you put the
Linux CD in and mounted it at /mnt/cdrom
- Do the following commands
- rpm -Uvh /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/qt1x-*
- rpm -Uvh /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/kde*
- rpm -Uvh /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/switchdesk-kde*
-
NOTE: If you are trying to install KDE from a RedHat 6.2 install,
and you do not have Mesa installed, you will get failures because of the
following packages. qt1x-GL, and kdebase-3d-screensavers.
If this is the case you will have to do the rpm's manually.
A Different Quick Install
(requires a network connection)
- Download this install-kde script
- Run the script (as root)
Longer - Manual Install
The following packages constitute a KDE installation. Get them from your
local Fermi Linux distribution. You can also get them from a standard RedHat
distribution.
- qt1x *
- qt1x-devel
- kdeadmin
- kdebase *
- kdebase-lowcolor-icons
- kdegames
- kdegraphics
- kdelibs *
- kdelibs-devel **
- kdemultimedia
- kdenetwork
- kdesupport *
- kdetoys
- kdeutils
The above packages do have an order that they need to be installed. Below is
the order in which they need to be installed.
- qt1x
- qt1x-devel ***
- kdesupport
- kdelibs
- kdelibs-devel ***
- kdebase
- There is no specific order for the rest
COMMENTS
* Mininmum required packages
** kdelibs-devel requires qt1x-devel
*** If installing kdelibs-devel
Graphical Login
Getting it to use KDE's Graphical Login and not Gnome,
or plain X
- Install KDE (see above)
- echo "KDE" > /etc/sysconfig/desktop
- reboot
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October 16, 2000