Emerged KDE now what...?

SSODR · n00b Joined: 27 Mar 2003 Posts: 12

Hi guys,

I am brand new not only to this forum but I am also brand new to linux and gentoo. I've played around with redhat a little before but its nothing to write home about. I am however very good at windows and understand some programing so thats helped a lot with the transistion.

I currently have gentoo up and running with internet. I typed

"emerge kde"

and it did its thing for about 20hrs straight.

Now my question is... what to do next? I am just left with a prompt.

Do I have to edit a file to link the term "xwindows" with KDE's exe file or something?

Is "startkde" suppose to work?

Is the program already installed from my emerge command or do i have to un-tar something and install some of the files it downloaded?

All I want to do now is just get KDE up and running.

Sorry if this has been covered before in this forum, I tried searching around first before posting. However, I didn't find anything that directly pertained.

Thanks for the help!

bsolar · Bodhisattva Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 2764

Look here you'll find your answers, I think.
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SQLBoy · Guru Joined: 17 Aug 2002 Posts: 381

to get kde up quick do

nano ~/.xinitrc

type:

#!/bin/bash
exec /usr/kde/3.1/bin/startkde

exit and save.

now type:

startx

That will work on any linux distro, not just Gentoo.

bsolar · Bodhisattva Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 2764

dwilson · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 10 Feb 2003 Posts: 115

The easiest way is to just type kdm, and login.

bsolar · Bodhisattva Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 2764

jfb3 · Apprentice Joined: 01 Feb 2003 Posts: 242

SSODR · n00b Joined: 27 Mar 2003 Posts: 12

Good question.

I appreciate the feedback guys!!!

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I have tried all of the solutions on this page and nothing seems to work yet.

Even though I already did "emerge kde" I went through the KDE install page and un-tar-ed

"kdebase-3.1.1.tar.bz2"

in the directory

"/usr/portage/distfiles"

per instructions listed in red below...(i think "emerge kde" and the instructions below both install the program...am i right?)

The source .tar.bz2 package installs into /usr/local/kde by default. You can override this setting by using the --prefix option of the configure script.

Procedure 4.3.

1.unpack the packages with tar jxvf packagename.tar.bz2

2.change directory to the package directory: cd packagename

3.configure the package: ./configure

Note:

Some packages (notably kdebase) have special configuration options that might be applicable to your installation. Type ./configure --help to see the available options.

4.build the package: make

5.install the package: su -c "make install" (if you aren't already root). If you already are, just type make install.

4.6.Post-installation procedures

First of all, please make sure that you have added KDE's binary installation directory (e.g. /opt/kde/bin) to your PATH and KDE's library installation directory to your LD_LIBRARY_PATH (only necessary on systems that do not support rpath; on Linux® ELF, it should work without). This environment variable may be called differently on some systems, e.g. it is called SHLIB_PATH on IRIX®. Then set the environment variable KDEDIR to the base of your KDE tree, e.g. /opt/kde.

However, the Post-installation instructions which refer to the PATH or the LD_LIBRARY_PATH don't tell you if, "PATH" is a file, where it is or what...so that confuses me.

Also it refers to this file called .xinitrc or .xsession, later on, which I have no clue where to find. I assume they are hidden because of the initial dot but what dir they are in is beyond me.

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Besides that I have emerged xfree which i understand is necessary for kde.

I set up the rc.conf file and kdm like -bsolar- suggested.

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When I type kdm (which i believe you do 1st)

Nothing happens

When I type startx

i get a bunch of text that says it saves to a log file "/var/log/Xfree86.0.log" and ends with this message

"XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0" after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining"

When I type startkde i get the following...

xsetroot: unable to open display''
xset: unable to open display ""
startkde: Starting up...
startkde: Running kpersonalizer...
kwin: cannot connect to X server
kpersonalizer: cannot connect to X server
kpersonalizer: cannot connect to X server
kpersonalizer: cannot connect to X server
etc...
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I realize I have posted a ton of questions at one time,

but any help would be VERY MUCH appreciated! Thanks!

SSODR · n00b Joined: 27 Mar 2003 Posts: 12

Boy I feel somewhat stupid...

I read all of the kde.org stuff, but not the link that -bsolar- 1st posted for me off of gentoo's site...

I am going through that now, that should help a lot...DUH!