Emerge KDE 3.1 RC without previous KDE

stefanwa · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Dec 2002 Posts: 140

Hi! My first post...

OK, I just installed Gentoo!

I emerged Xfree86 and I now want to emerge KDE 3.1. I know it's still in RC stage, but I want to give it a try. So, do I need to emerge KDE 3.0.5 first? I only found suggestions here how to install 3.1 with a previous KDE already installed. So, how do I emerge it "from scratch"? Which files do I need to edit so I can emerge 3.1? Anything special to consider? What about QT?

Thanks so much!
Steve

MrJ412 · n00b Joined: 10 Apr 2002 Posts: 39 Location: Shawnee, KS

Just unmask KDE 3.1 RC 5 in the /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask file by commenting out (put a # at the start of the line) that section of the file.

Then just do an 'emerge -p kde' and 'emerge kde' ... It should work, you don't need 3.0.5 installed first.

This worked for me when I first installed Gentoo a few weeks ago...

stefanwa · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Dec 2002 Posts: 140

Thanks!

stefanwa · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Dec 2002 Posts: 140

Wow, had a major problem.
I did what was suggested, but when compiling it complained about lacking QT >=3.1.
So I unmasked the QT things and did an "emerge qt". OK, it compiled, but about 45 config files weren't updated! Do I have to check them all by hand!? I know I can disable the file protection in /etc, but I looked at some of the new files and I'd have to go through every file too, as some would have been replaced with the default, not for my system files (e.g. fstab). So, I had nothing to lose and just tried to emerge after a reboot, but of course there's a major version collision with python for example as no config files were updated.
It's good I made a HD image before doing all this so I don't have to reinstall everything.
Does anyone know a more "clean" way to install it? Or, what did I do wrong?
Thanks again!
Steve

Edit: Just found out in the FAQ about the config files. I'll look into it...