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- Red Hat are now shipping their own KDE distribution
- with Red Hat 6.0.
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- The RPM packages shipped by Red Hat are named "kde*-1.1.1pre2"
- They are based on snapshots of KDE taken a few days before
- the official KDE-1.1.1 release, but are essentially the
- same as the final release. They are built with qt-1.44,
- libstdc++-2.9.0 and glibc-2.1.1. They are structured differently
- from the RPM packages for RedHat 5.x produced by the KDE packagers,
- which are available at ftp.kde.org.
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- By default, the RedHat 6.0 rpms install with default
- $KDEDIR=/usr (not $KDEDIR=/opt/kde).
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- They are also not split up into subpackages. RedHat's
- rpm specfiles are derived in part from our pre-1.1 KDE rpms, and
- are not compatible with the present structure that we are using.
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- Finally, RedHat 6.0 has a changed xdm/gdm/kdm Display Manager
- invocation in /etc/inittab. The X Display Manager is selected by
- the symbolic link /etc/X11/prefdm.
- The "usekde" script is also obsoleted.
- (RedHat's kdesupport-1.1.1pre2 package does not supply "kdm_on"
- and "kdm_off" scripts, but case our own "kdm_on" and "kdm_off" scripts get
- run for some reason on a RedHat 6.0 system, they have now been modified
- to recognize such a system and behave appropriately)
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- The following information may be of use to help RedHat6.0
- users get KDE from RedHat's "kde*-1.1.1pre2-1.i386.rpm"
- packages working:
- (1) install the rpms that come with RedHat 6.0:
- "rpm -Uvh kde*-1.1.1pre2-1.i386.rpm"
- where "kde*" = kdesupport, kdelibs, kdebase, kdeadmin,
- kdegraphics, kdegames, kdemultimedia, kdenetwork, kdeutils.
- (2) To make RedHat 6.0 use kdm as the X display manager, just type
- "ln -sf ../../usr/bin/kdm /etc/X11/prefdm"
- (3) To make "startx" on RedHat 6.0 start kde, create a file
- .Xclients in the user's home directory, containing the single line
- "exec /usr/bin/startkde"
- and then make it world-executable, with
- "chmod a+x .Xclients"
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- * WE DO NOT RECOMMEND THAT YOU USE OUR "rh5x" SERIES *
- * RPMS with REDHAT 6.0. *
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- * If you plan to upgrade your RedHat 5.x system with our *
- * KDE-1.1.1 rpms installed to RedHat 6.0, we recommend that *
- * you first uninstall our rpms, before installing RedHat's *
- * KDE-1.1.1pre2 rpms *
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-
- It is recommended that you uninstall the rh5x release with
- the script:
-
- uninstall-kde
- rpm -e kde-installer
- ( rpm -e kde-applications )
-
- Do this *BEFORE* attempting to install RedHat 6.0 KDE
-
- There are reports that our "rh5x" RPMS (mostly) work with RedHat 6.0
- as some people prefer them to the RedHat-supplied rpms, but they
- have not been tested carefully on RH6.0. Since RedHat 6.0
- uses a new glibc, and libstdc++, there may be some incompatibilites.
- As a matter or policy, we feel that you ought to use the RPMS
- supplied by RedHat. But in the spirit of freedom of choice,
- in case you do use our "rh5x" rpms on RedHat 6.0, the "kdm_on" and
- "kdm_off" scripts supplied by kdesupport-1.1.1-2rh5x.i386.rpm have
- now been modified to behave correctly on a RedHat 6.0 system.
- At least some of the packages (in particular kdeadmin, for
- kdeadmin-kpackage-1.1.1-2rh5x) should be rebuilt on RH6.0 to
- work properly; but at least one other (kdegraphics-dviviewer, for
- kdvi) does not appear to work on RH6.0 if it was built on RH6.0,
- but the binary built on RH5.2 does work on RH6.0!. There may
- be problems with the older terminal application (kvt), but its
- newer alternative (konsole) works. Note that our "install-kde-1.1.1"
- script will refuse to install our RPMS on RedHat 6.0.
-
-
- At the present time, we (at redhat-rpms@kde.org) do not plan to
- support RedHat 6.0 and above, as this has in principle become
- the responsibility of RedHat's KDE RPM package maintainer.
- The maintainer of the RedHat-produced rpms may be identified by issuing
- the rpm command
- "rpm -q --changelog kdebase"
- if the kdebase rpm is installed, or
- "rpm -qp --changelog kdebase-1.1.1pre2.i386.rpm" if it is
- not installed, and the rpm package is in the current directory.
-
-
- Comments about the RedHat-produced RedHat-6.0 KDE rpms should be addressed
- to their maintainer.
-
- Comments about our rpms ("rh5x", "rh50egcs" series) on RedHat 5.x systems
- should be addressed to us.
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- The KDE RPM Packagers
- <redhat-rpms@kde.org>
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