Installing the latest KDE with Red Hat Linux/Fedora
KDE 3.2.1 was released on 03/09/2004.
Installing KDE 3.2.1 with Fedora Core 1:
1. Download the KDE 3.2.1 RPMs from a mirror.
mkdir -p kde_3.2.1/i386
kde_3.2.1/noarch
cd kde_3.2.1/i386
wget
ftp://download.uk.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.2.1/RedHat/Fedora/i386/*
cd ../noarch
wget
ftp://download.uk.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.2.1/RedHat/Fedora/noarch/*
2. Exit KDE or your current desktop environment.
3. Install KDE 3.2.1. rpm's
"freshen" flag will only update currently installed packages.
cd kde_3.2.1/i386
md5sum -c md5sume
rpm -Fvh *.rpm
cd ../noarch
md5sum -c md5sume
rpm -Fvh *.rpm
4. Start KDE.
Links:
The KDE for RedHat project
Quick
Introduction to KDE 3.2 Installation
Older notes
The following instructions were used to install KDE 3.1 with Red Hat
Linux 8.0. Although the KDE 3.1 RPMs are listed as "unstable/test,"
many
users have had success running these packages.
1. Install apt
from freshrpms.
rpm -Uvh http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/psyche/apt/apt-0.5.5cnc4-fr2.i386.rpm
2. Add the following entries to /etc/apt/sources.list:
### RedHat 8.0
## Stable packages (required)
rpm ftp://apt.unl.edu/apt/ 8.0 kde3 kde3-extras
## Unstable/test packages (optional)
rpm ftp://apt.unl.edu/apt/ 8.0 kde3-test
3. Update the apt database.
apt-get update
4. Install KDE 3.1
apt-get install kde3 -y
5. Restart KDE to begin running KDE 3.1.
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Last modified: 03/10/2004