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  • From: Treeve Jelbert <treeve AT scarlet.be>
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  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Is KDE4 safe to cast with kDE3?
  • Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 08:42:38 +0200

On Friday 18 May 2007 04:48:59 Bearcat M. Sandor wrote:
> My curiosity is burning. Is kde4 safe to cast on a system that already has
> kde3 on it? Will there be a conflict? Will it trounce my existing settings?

I cast it on my kde3 system. Kde4 now installs everything ti /opt and does
not mess up my kde3 system. However, it is best ot follow the advice on the
kdewebsite

http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Build/KDE4


and create a separate user for use with kde4. You must setup dbus correctly
for the new user. You can then either start from the new kdm4 session
manager, or su to the new user while still in kde3.

I tend to use su.

Be warned that lots of things still crash, and if you already have kde3, you
may find duplicate entries in the various menus; one each for the old and new
versions of things.


I have a couple more patches for kde4, which I will try to submit today.
After that feel free to try kde4.

One area of uncertainty is the behaviour when building with/without some of
the "optional " dependencies. Also some of the dependencies currently exist
ony from svn, but the automated download in cast fails because of invalid
certificates, so I have not yet submitted spells for things like decibel and
tapioca-qt. Don't forget that you also need qt4-4.3


If you are using devell sorcery, I recommend turning off

CASTFS_DEBUG_LEVEL

otherwise it takes almost as long to build the log file as it does to build
everything else.



Any feedback will be appreciated
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Regards, Treeve

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