49k and KDE

claudejones · Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 1:29 pm Post subject: 49k and KDE

This is my first post to the forum. I was pleased to discover the announcement over at DistroWatch about this project, and downloaded/installed it immediately. I'm a TV producer in the vicinity of Washington, DC, and I have been discovering Linux for the past 20 months. After trying multiple distros, I had concluded that with all its imperfections, Fedora was still my preferred project - I like it because of its rapid pace of development, large user base, and huge collection of repositories. I had hoped to become profficient enough that some day I could unite these qualities and build a Fedora distro that was oriented to the content creator community - so, this what was great about discovering your project. OK - enough introductions.

I actually tried your stable version first, 30002, I think it's called. I prefer KDE to Gnome, and I found some posts in the forum that suggested using Synaptic to install KDE. I did that without any trouble, and KDE came up cleanly after a re-logging in. Then I installed your new 49k, I think it was 49993 - when I tried to log into KDE after the install, I got an error to the effect that the system couldn't start "kstartconfig" - and clicking the OK button returned me to the login screen. Googling this error has produced a bunch of hits on various SUSE forums - I wonder if anyone else has encountered this and found a solution before I try those SUSE user suggestions?

jebba · Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 6:41 pm Post subject:

Uh did you do a fresh install or an upgrade of 30k->50k?

KDE is not on the CD as you probably know. Gnome is quite nice now, btw. ;)

Anyway, this may fix your stuff if you did an upgrade:

claudejones · Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 1:10 am Post subject:

[quote="jebba"]Uh did you do a fresh install or an upgrade of 30k->50k?

Fresh install

[quote="jebba"]KDE is not on the CD as you probably know. Gnome is quite nice now, btw. ;)

I understand that people like it. I just don't - I have spend a considerable amount of time with it, but, it's not my choice. I have KDE 3.5 running on multiple machines, both Fedora and other distros. It's my preference - but I certainly have no interest in starting a Gnome vs KDE war, not to mention all the other desktops...

[quote="jebba"]If you have a fresh install, i suggest installing yumex then using it to download/install the kde bits you want:

That's what I did. "yum install yumex" then, checked the repos, and it seemed as though the defaults were simply the blag repos, which I left that way - then I installed all the KDE packages.

john maclean · Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 12:55 pm Post subject:

I've not used kde before but is there a --debug option? If there is it could be useful to iron out your problems and for googling.

Guest · Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 8:00 pm Post subject:

john maclean · Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 11:21 pm Post subject:

are there any other clues that you can think of? for example

stevo32 · Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 11:37 pm Post subject:

I'm more inclined to think that deleting your entire kde configuration directories in your home dir (rm -rf /home/`whoami`/.kde*) and having the new version recreate them or ensuring that you've got all the necessary programs to run KDE.

Thanks,
Stephen Clement

Guest · Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 4:57 pm Post subject:

john maclean · Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 5:54 pm Post subject:

Have you tried the `which` command? As in `which kde-foo` or what ever it's called?

stevo32 · Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 1:42 am Post subject:

jebba · Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 5:04 am Post subject:

Woah stevo nice one. :)

I've done that in the past, but never so simply.

We should wiki that up. And get e17 in the repo!

-Jeff

jebba · Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 5:16 am Post subject:

Actually very nice. I'm running gnome with 21 virtual desktops, blackbox, fluxbox, and enlightenment simultaneously -- F7 through F10.

jebba · Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 5:22 am Post subject:

Actually very nice. I'm running gnome with 21 virtual desktops, blackbox, fluxbox, and enlightenment simultaneously -- F7 through F10. Works on 30k & 50k.

jebba · Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 6:01 am Post subject:

FWIW I got kde going on 49k logging in via GDM and changing the session. My old 20k (!) .kde dirs worked fine, but I yanked 'em to start fresh. I also switched to the really-little-guys icon theme. :)

XFCE works fine too and can use the really-little-guys SVG icon set and the blagCanyon gnome theme. It's just not set by default.

-Jeff

stevo32 · Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 9:07 am Post subject:

Nice to hear you've got it working. I plan to write a wiki entry on this.

Thanks,
Stephen Clement