More KDE 2.0 Binaries Available (Yes, RedHat 6.2 too)

Monday, 6 November 2000  |  Dre

Several of you have written in to note that Red Hat 6.2 rpms for KDE 2 are now available here. A full list of KDE 2.0 binaries for the various distributions/versions is below -- if you know of any more please add a comment. Remember, folks, these rpms are not built by the KDE Team. Update: 11/06 10:16 PM. It appears the mirrors have still not picked up the rpms -- here is a direct link to the KDE ftp site.

Here is a list of the KDE 2.0 binaries available as of todayt:

Comments:

Ow ? Where ? - Jelmer Feenstra - 2000-11-06

Is it me or aren't there any kde 2.0 binaries following the link ("here") ? Besides that, the link mentioned in the list of kde 2.0 binaries available seems dead.

Re: Ow ? Where ? - Karl Schroeder - 2000-11-06

Darn right, the binaries are not there. Is somebody going to fix this problem, or were they vapour to begin with?

Re: Ow ? Where ? - David - 2000-11-07

Vapour? They programmed an entire desktop system. I could be wrong, but I think you have never even coded a 'Hello world' program.

Re: Ow ? Where ? - Kevin Breit - 2000-11-06

For some reason, they linked to Sourceforge. The official KDE.org ftp site has them.

Slackware available as well - David Johnson - 2000-11-06

Slackware binaries are available as well under slackware-current.

Re: More KDE 2.0 Binaries Available (Yes, RedHat 6.2 too) - cph - 2000-11-06

Anyone got binaries for Solaris ? Or know where I can get them ? Thanks CP

Solaris binaries - Mats Eriksson - 2000-11-06

I was in touch with Luc I. Suryo, who made the binaries for KDE 1.1.2 and Qt-1.44, and he told me that he should try to have the binaries for KDE2 and Qt 2.2.1 done by the 2nd or 3rd week of November.

Re: Solaris binaries - dcranford - 2000-11-07

I am working directly with Luc Suryo to get the solaris binaries out....I have actually fixed all of the bugs in the Solaris binaries and am pkging the x86 ones up now. They are ready to be shipped off to ftp. They should be available via ftp.kde.org or ftp.patriots.org in the next day or so.

Re: Solaris sources and binaries - Chris Papachristou - 2000-11-07

I am wondering if you would be kind enough to look into the following comments regarding compilation of kde on Solaris 8. I have tried to compile kde-2 on Ultra 10 running Solaris 8. I had 3 problems, 2 I fixed myself but can not do the third. 1) kdenetwork-2.0 There is a problem with /var/utmp. Solaris 8 uses /var/utmpx not utmp. I made a link utmp to utmpx, then it compiled fine. But there may be a better way. 2) kdemultimedia-2.0 There is a problem in kmidi/TIMIDITY. The file makelinks contains links 'ln -sf' to files in parent directory. But Solaris 8 does not like the link options 'ln -sf'. But it works with the modified options: 'ln -f -s' . It compiled fine. 3) koffice-2.0. I still have a problem compiling. After running make for some time, I get the following error: ------------------ attached ------------ Thank you very much.

Re: Solaris binaries - Lionel Graff - 2000-11-15

Hi, I've seen binaries for Solaris 8 are available on ftp.kde.org. Unfortunatly I'm using Solaris 2.6. Any chance there will be one day binaries for this version ? I've actually tried to compile the sources but got too many problems and gave up...

Re: Solaris binaries - Vincent Croquette - 2001-11-06

Really ? I tried to find them in pub/kde/stable/2.2 I only found the bin.tar.bz2 files ? I dunno how to install them Is there a pkg release somewhere for 2.2 or 2.2.1 ? Thanks in advance Vincent

Re: More KDE 2.0 Binaries Available (Yes, RedHat 6.2 too) - jimbo - 2000-11-07

I second that question, I run SunOS 5.6 on a SUN Ultra 250 and have tried to installe KDE2.0 from source, using GNU g++.<br> I managed to comple QT-2.2.1 and libz (threw libz into the QT lib/include-dirs, simply and ugly ;)<br> But the kdelibs compilation stops with errors, trying to delete an instantiation of a template class (see below), so I am just sitting here now waiting for someone to pick up where I stopped.<br> <i> kcompletionbase.cpp: In method `KCompletionBase::~KCompletionBase()':<br> kcompletionbase.cpp:46: type `class QGuardedPtr<KCompletion>' argument given to `delete', expected pointer<br> make[3]: *** [kcompletionbase.lo] Error 1</i>

Re: More KDE 2.0 Binaries Available (Yes, RedHat 6.2 too) - Patrik Wallström - 2000-11-06

I never got the konqueror to browse web pages... (rh6.2 x86) It complained something about /usr/lib/klibssl or something like that.

Re: More KDE 2.0 Binaries Available (Yes, RedHat 6.2 too) - AArthur - 2000-11-06

You need to install openssl (and any of it's depencies). Konqueror needs that to view secure sites. You might be able to get a version that doesn't require openssl, such versions exist for Debian GNU/Linux.

Re: More KDE 2.0 Binaries Available (Yes, RedHat 6.2 too) - arcade - 2000-11-06

Lies! Lies! The rh6.2 binaries are not where that link shuffles you. Only a couple of SRPMS, but no binaries. lies! lies! --arcade

Re: More KDE 2.0 Binaries Available (Yes, RedHat 6.2 too) - David - 2000-11-07

Your attitude is pathetic. Remember that these people are providing a whole desktop system for free. For F R E E !

Re: More KDE 2.0 Binaries Available (Yes, RedHat 6.2 too) - Anonymous - 2000-11-07

Don't try to convience him. He's a Slashdotter, so that kind of attitude is normal to him.

KDE 2.0 Binaries, Mandrake version and distro prob - Eric Laffoon - 2000-11-06

<p>If there is any fault with KDE 2 it is that it is not so easy for newbies to install. The mandrake RPMs are a good example. Simply trying to install them on Mandrake 7.1 or older is an exercise in patience getting all the dependencies, very likely breaking X and other things with the new initscripts and upon completion Konqueror will not work right nor much else. In fact in theory you have remove all old KDE 1 rpms which are not all conveniently named starting with a k.</p> <p>I have installed from source and found it not to be to difficult at all, plus everything works, kde1 is still 100% and I have a pristeen install instead of one that is distro-ized with different menus, icons and splash screens.. I know of no one from the Mandrake newsgroup proclaiming total victory installing from RPM.</p> <p>It would be great if KDE had more assistance in packaging etc... however I think this misses the point. It really is up to distros to package. They do the RPMs. They make all the different ways to start X and customize all the tweaks. While it would be great to have a Helix like install I thihk it is impractical and too time consuming for KDE developers to have to think about packaging.</p> <p>I thought about packaging for older versions of Mandrake however with the Quanta editor most of the problems we encountered were from RPM installs. I realize that even if I have unlimited bandwidth on my server I can't justify the email requests for help. Only a distro can afford that and guess what? They want to sell new boxes... or you can download the CDs for free.</p> <p>I have created a help page for mandrake users for getting exactly the prep files they need and walking them through the steps of an install including even how to get the new kdm on line. I think we have to realize that RPMs are a double edge sword. They are faster to install but they remove choices. They are also nightmarish to make and have such a complex variety for point numbers and distros (on the level of KDE 2) as well as back end service issues. We should expect RPMs pretty much just from distros and generally only supporting thier new releases, at least on the complexity level of a project like KDE 2.</p> <p>If you would like to look at my Mandrake help page it is <a href="http://virtualartisans.com/linux/mandrake/">here</a>.

Re: KDE 2.0 Binaries, Mandrake version and distro prob - Erlend Boe - 2000-11-07

It is a real shame that Mandrake is not releasing rpms for their "old" products (7.0 and 7.1), and only for the brand-new 7.2 Like you, I ended up spending a lot of time upgrading my system (after looking at your helpful page :-) ), and a lot of time downloading the source. Luckily, the compile went flawlessly, and i now have a very stable KDE2 However, I'm sure that there are many Mandrake users out there that are very happy with their 7.0 or 7.1 (like me), but unable to spend a day (thats how long it takes with ISDN) to download and install the upgrades and the KDE2 source If only I was less curious.. then I would have been able to save a lot of time by waiting a bit and instead buying (again!!) yet another Mandrake CD

Re: KDE 2.0 Binaries, Mandrake version and distro prob - Paul C. Leopardi - 2000-11-07

Thanks for this. I recently (<A href="http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-user&m=97340634729870&w=2">here</A>) tried to answer a question on installing KDE 2.0 on Mandrake 7.1 and found it hard. Some of the required dependencies seemed to be unavailable as Mandrake RPMs. <br> My answer was based on <A href="http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-user&m=97299020422157&w=2">"Be careful:..."</A> which I based on what I could see in RPMFIND, Cooker and other sites.

Re: More KDE 2.0 Binaries Available (Yes, RedHat 6.2 too) - anon - 2000-11-06

I had problems starting konqueror and everythig else with KDE2, because I am stage with Mandrake where I don't think what I am doing. :-) Anyhow, I got installed every packages except kdebase with rpm -ivh *.rmp. I downloaded rpm's from ftp.kde.org. Kdebase was version kde 1.2. I made upgrade from downloaded iso of 7.2 from version 7.1. I leave you guess what went wrong, I even thougth to made some report to mandrake. ;-) Below are notes which I wrote down, when I tryed to install downloaded version from ftp.kde.org. Oh, I had kde2-beta in /opt/kde2 :-) kdebase ###############################unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/share/apps/kdm/pics/users: cpio: unlink file /usr/bin/khotkeys from install of kdebase-2.0-1mdk conflicts with file from package khotkeys-1.0.3-3mdk file /usr/bin/kdesu from install of kdebase-2.0-1mdk conflicts with file from package kdesu-0.98-13mdk file /usr/bin/kdesud from install of kdebase-2.0-1mdk conflicts with file from package kdesu-0.98-13mdk at least: warning: /etc/X11/wmsession.d/01KDE created as /etc/X11/wmsession.d/01KDE.rpmnewwarning: /etc/menu-methods/kde created as /etc/menu-methods/kde.rpmnew warning: /etc/pam.d/kde created as /etc/pam.d/kde.rpmnew warning: /etc/profile.d/kde.csh created as /etc/profile.d/kde.csh.rpmnew warning: /etc/profile.d/kde.sh created as /etc/profile.d/kde.sh.rpmnew kdebase ##################################################

Re: More KDE 2.0 Binaries Available (Yes, RedHat 6 - stephen harker - 2000-11-07

For a start, it looks like the rpm you downloaded is corrupted, try downloading it again or from a different server (mirror) Secondly you should install all the binaries with rpm -Uvh to remove the old KDE 1.1.2 packages (U for upgrade) As for the conflicts, It will porbably be ok to force the installation agains the kdesu package by doing rpm -Uvh --nodeps kdebase-..... It will overwrite the 3 files from kdesu-0,98 but if Mandrake have been consistent (I would imagine so :-)) then the replacement shouldn't matter. Either that or just uninstall kdesu-0.98 first but there may be other packages that depend on it. Good Luck

Re: More KDE 2.0 Binaries Available (Yes, RedHat 6.2 too) - Lester Barrows - 2000-11-07

Hi, Remove or rename the /usr/share/apps/kdm/pics/users directory, this will allow the RPM to install what it needs. It wants to make a symlink, and can't. Try forcing the update on the rest of them, it works. I do agree though, the packaging could have been better :-) At least, leaving KDE 1.1.2 there would have been a nice option for those who didn't want to jump in too deep. Regards, Lester

How to install kde2 on old Mandrake - Mike Hunt - 2000-11-07

Mandrake is actually very easy. Basically you should: boot a gnome or failsafe X session uninstall ALL of kde1 (try rpm -qa |grep kde) kdebase, kdesupport, kdegames, etc. Plus uninstall of its apps (e.g., kpacman) Then uninstall qt & qt2 and any of its apps (probably won't be many non-kde qt apps; nethack is one, however), because the new qts will be incompatible. Then download new qt and qt2 rpms from Mandrake, plus all the basic kde rpms (koffice, kdebase, kdesupport, etc.), plus any other qt/kde apps you want (e.g., kpacman). In addition you'll need to upgrade mandrake_desk and menu; you also might need to upgrade other things; e.g., menudrake. There might be related dependencies; e.g., rpm 4, but these should be ok. rpm -U *should* work the same rpm -e and then rpm -i, but for several reasons (e.g., the new kde1-compat rpm, which won't work too well with the old packages otherwise), I'd recommend the rpm -e approach. But whatever you do, don't rpm -i, which will try to install *both* versions

Re: More KDE 2.0 Binaries Available (Yes, RedHat 6.2 too) - mathi - 2000-11-06

is there any 'howto' document for upgrading from KDE1.1.2 to KDE2.0?

Re: More KDE 2.0 Binaries Available (Yes, RedHat 6.2 too) - Martin - 2000-11-07

I would also like to know... Is it enough to do rpm -Uvh packages ? Or are there post-installation procedures ? thanks. Martin

Re: More KDE 2.0 Binaries Available (Yes, RedHat 6.2 too) - Paul C. Leopardi - 2000-11-07

This is only the beginning of an answer: <br> In <A href="http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-user&m=97299020422157&w=2">"Be careful:..."</A> I showed that RPMs for each distribution assume a different directory structure and also make different assumptions about whether to keep KDE 1.1.2, install over it, or re-install it as a compatibility library. <br> In this case, and for other reasons, the post-installation steps will vary with your distribution and version. <br> I am looking for the right post-installation steps for SuSE 7.0. I would like to get rid of all obsolete references to /opt/kde in files under /etc and /sbin. Some of these references should be changed to /opt/kde2, but only in some files and not others. These post-installation steps do not apply to Red Hat or Mandrake because they use a different directory structure. <br> Also, I installed from the SuSE RPMs at KDE and not those at SuSE, and I'm not sure if there are any differences besides the SuSE installation shell script which exists at SuSE but not at KDE. <br> See also <A href="http://dot.kde.org/973526972/973588466/posting_html">this posting.</A>

Compilation options?? - Simon Arthur - 2000-11-06

I'm posting using the RedHat 6.2 version of Konqueror right now. Does anyone know if RedHat used the faster KDE compilation options, such as -fno-exceptions and -O2? How can I find out?

Re: More KDE 2.0 Binaries Available (Yes, RedHat 6.2 too) - Eeli Kaikkonen - 2000-11-06

Good news to some who got disappointed: ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/2.0/distribution/rpm/RedHat/rh6.2/i386/ really includes binary rpms. Also Dre may sigh for relief, he will not be killed :), but he should update the links.

Re: More KDE 2.0 Binaries Available (Yes, RedHat 6.2 too) - trelos - 2000-11-07

The rpms for RedHat 7.0 is not so good. First, the libmng and qt-2.2.1 is missing; Second, even after downgrade the libpng, some kde program like kcontrol still keep crash/give core dump when you try to close it after play with it for a while. Anyone knows what's wrong?

Re: More KDE 2.0 Binaries Available (Yes, RedHat 6.2 too) - Paul C. Leopardi - 2000-11-07

See <A href="http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-user&m=97299020422157&w=2">"Be careful..."</A> for some hints. I do not use Red Hat, so I have not been able to test it for accuracy, but I have submitted it for inclusion in the KDE FAQ.

Konqueror Strangeness - Uri Zarfaty - 2000-11-07

RH 6.2 install went smoothly - thanks! Only problem is that Konqueror refuses to display web pages unless (and this is the odd bit) it is started from a terminal. Starting it from the panel, a desktop link, or even right-clicking an html file and say Open With... konqueror, gives a "Could not create view for text/html" error. Any ideas?

Re: Konqueror Strangeness - Stuart Tippins - 2000-11-07

The installation did not go smoothly for me and I ended up removing KDE 1 to install KDE2 Now everything seems to work except Help, Konqueror and kMail.... I get the same html/text error on opening web pages. Does anyone know how to fix these problems?

Re: Konqueror Strangeness - Hetz - 2000-11-08

By installing OpenSSL 0.9.6 binary RPM... If one of the KDE FTP maintainer will allow me to upload - I will upload tommorow a Redhat 6.2 RPM which I made... Hetz

Re: Konqueror Strangeness - Nathaniel Taylor - 2003-01-17

"Could not create view for text/html", in Konqueror. I had a similar problem and message, in spite of having made Konqueror the primary HTML reader. Other accounts on the same computer worked fine, so I compared the settings: by changing the configuration for the html file-type in the "Embedding" tag, and putting "KHTML" as the only thing in the "Services preference order" it all worked.

Re: More KDE 2.0 Binaries Available (Yes, RedHat 6 - MacPlus - 2000-11-07

Hello, Can anyone tell me where to find the PowerPC RPM's?? the link ( ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/2.0/distribution/rpm/ppc-glibc21/ ) leads to and empty folder and it has been leading to that empty folder for weeks now. Can anyone tell me which, if any, server has the PPC binaries? how much longer will Mac users have to wait to experience KDE 2? thanks, appleweek@mindspring.com

Re: More KDE 2.0 Binaries Available (Yes, RedHat 6 - MacPlus - 2000-11-07

Hello, Can anyone tell me where to find the PowerPC RPM's?? the link ( ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/2.0/distribution/rpm/ppc-glibc21/ ) leads to and empty folder and it has been leading to that empty folder for weeks now. Can anyone tell me which, if any, server has the PPC binaries? how much longer will Mac users have to wait to experience KDE 2? thanks, appleweek@mindspring.com

RRunning KDE2 apps in WindowMaker - Frustrated - 2000-11-07

I am trying to run KMail and a few other apps without running KDE2 and I get a bunch of errors, and then all of the toolbars and menus are missing from the app. The errors are QObject::connect errors to KMMainWin and many others Is there a secret I am missing?

Re: More KDE 2.0 Binaries Available (Yes, RedHat 6.2 too) - Uwe - 2000-11-07

This mirror at least has got them: ftp://ftp.na.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/2.0/distribution/rpm/RedHat/rh6.2

Re: More KDE 2.0 Binaries Available: SuSE site - Paul C. Leopardi - 2000-11-07

SuSE has KDE 2.0 download information including FTP sites and URLs at <A href=" http://www.suse.com/us/support/download/kde2/index.html">http://www.suse.com/us/support/download/kde2/index.html</A> and instructions given in a FAQ at <A href="http://www.suse.com/us/support/download/kde2/faq.html">http://www.suse.com/us/support/download/kde2/faq.html</A> <br> The SuSE RPMs at <A href="ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/">SuSE</A> have a different directory structure and come with an installation script which is not in the equivalent SuSE directories at <A href="ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/2.0/distribution/rpm/SuSE/">KDE</A> <br> The SuSE home page links to a press release at <A href="http://www.suse.com/us/suse/news/PressReleases/kde2.html">http://www.suse.com/us/suse/news/PressReleases/kde2.html</A> <br> I do not work for SuSE but am running SuSE 7.0 at home, with KDE 2.0 installed and running, but missing some post-installation steps.

Re: More KDE 2.0 Binaries Available (Yes, RedHat 6.2 too) - Eeli Kaikkonen - 2000-11-07

http://bestlinux.net/cgi-bin/ftp.pl?dir=pretest/current/KDE2 Best Linux is a Red Hat variant from Finland. See http://bestlinux.net/en/

RedHat 6.2 RPMs - David Huff - 2000-11-07

Well, I've yet to get the RedHat 6.2 i386 RPMs to work on my RH 6.2 system. Basically, the problem is that, after running startkde in my .xinitrc, I get: <p><tt> KDesktop error dialog: Unable to create io-slave: klauncher said: Unknown protocol 'file' <br>Both KDesktop and Kicker error dialogs: <br> * Could not fine mime type aplication/octet-stream <br>* No mime types installed </tt> <p>I submitted a bug report and David Faure responded quite fast. After checking some (to him :) obvious things, he found "kdeinit: Already running." in my .xsession-errors file. This led him to reply: <p><i>"Hmm, that's the dcopserver problem again. I remember it has something to do with gcc 2.96 - I wonder if your packages were compiled with it ? This should go back to whoever compiled your packages, it's not a KDE bug per se."</i> <p>The RPMs were downloaded from ftp.kde.org. The RPM info on them said they were built on porky.redhat.com. Anyone know how to get word to whomever built these at RedHat ? <p>BTW, many thanks to David Faure for his polite and speedy responses :)

where is libGL.so and libGLU.so in rh6.1? - Will - 2000-11-08

I'm running rh 6.1 and when I try to install the rpm for qt2.2.1 it complains about my open gl... i have mesa installed and actually the libgl.so.1 is on my hdd... what's the deal? can someone help me out or point me to the right package? Thanks Will.

Caldera KDE binaries - Paul - 2002-09-17

I can't seem to find a link anywhere (that works) to the kde 2.* binaries for Caldera edesktop 2.4 Any suggestions?