Introduction:
This brief howto will tell you how to quickly install KDE 3, the latest version of the popular desktop environment.
Step 1: Get the RPM's.
From the command line, as root:
wget ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pub/kde/stable/3.0/YellowDog/2.2/RPMS/* [ENTER]This will download all the KDE 3 RPM's, they are about a hundred megs or so.
(or from a web browser)
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.0/YellowDog/2.2/RPMS
Step 2: Installing
cd /home/root/kde [ENTER](cd to the directory where you downloaded the KDE RPMS, in this example, I downloaded 'em to /home/root/kde)
rpm --replacefiles -i * [ENTER]Now, most likely something will muck up. For example, it might say 'gphoto: needs gphoto' ... it will probably not say exactly this, but it will say *something* like this. If this occurs:
(or you can remove and then install)
rpm -e `rpm -qa |egrep ^kde` koffice kio-mac SDL-devel [ENTER]
rpm -Uvh *.rpm [ENTER]
rm gphoto*... where gphoto is the package that is having errors.
Step 3: Relogin
This will get you started with KDE 3. Go to http://www.themes.org/ for GTK and KDE themes.
Enjoy!! [:)]
This HOWTO was written by Philip Peterson
