[TriLUG] Who runs Red Hat and KDE

[karl thiele]

Ken Wahl wrote:

>On Sat, May 24, 2003 at 02:28:56AM -0400, karl thiele wrote:
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>>Who runs KDE with Red Hat?
>>Do you like the support you get for KDE in the RH distributions?
>>How do you keep current with KDE updates and/or new releases?
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>I do but I run KDE apps out of gnome.
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>Yes.
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>Synaptic/apt (uses freshrpms.net as resource)
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Have not heard of this.

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>>I mostly run RH for much of my work and I do not like the way RH 
>>supports KDE and vice versa. I also am annoyed there is no rpm for RH 
>>distributions at KDE. I migrated from FVWM to kde upon kde's first beta, 
>>so I am long in the tooth as a user. konstruct is fairly easy to use to 
>>build from src, but I am still annoyed I just can not get an rpm and 
>>install and keep on going. I have on occassion found some who has built 
>>an RPM, but those have not always worked.... Just want to get feel if 
>>anyone else feels the way I do. If there is interest I will build, test 
>>and support (for a while anyway), or if someone knows where "good" RH 
>>RPMS exist, I certainly would appreciate a URL....  
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>KDE (unabridged) for RedHat
>http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net/
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Well well this looks like I have some birds of a feather in trying to 
support a real KDE environment on RH. I am going to check this out and I 
will report back what I find and how well it works as compared to 
source. Last night I kicked off kcontruct for 3.1.2 and it failed to 
build.  Have not had a failure from source before.

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>I haven't used these but they might be worth your while..
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Thanks

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