Re: Help for installing kde under cygwin

Douglas Allen schrieb:
> On 6/23/07, Karim Yousfi <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Good evening,
>>
>> I'm sending you this mail from paris and I've a bigproblem to install
>> KDE
>> under Cygwin.
>>
>>  I already spent all my afternoon to try to fixthe pb unfortunately
>> without any result.
>>
>>  Please somebody could help me or I'm going  to be crazy. It seems that
>> oneof the problems is
>> the absence of the xwinclip command.
>>
>>  This is the error message:
>>
>> $ cygserver: Initialization complete.  Waiting for requests.
>> Welcome to the XWin X Server
>> Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project
>> Release: 6.8.99.901-4
>>
>> Contact: [email protected]
>>
>> XWin was started with the following command line:
>>
>> xwin -fullscreen -noreset
>>
>> /d/home/startkde: line 6: xwinclip: command not found
>> _XSERVTransSocketINETCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed
>> _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: server already running
>>
>> Fatal server error:
>> Cannot establish any listening sockets - Make sure an X server isn't
>> already run
>> ning
>> access control disabled, clients can connect from any host
>> xset:  bad font path element (#62), possible causes are:
>>     Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
>>     Directory missing fonts.dir
>>     Incorrect font server address or syntax
>> startkde: Starting up...
>> startkde: Running kpersonalizer...
>> DCOP: register 'anonymous-3088' -> number of clients is now 1
>> DCOP: unregister 'anonymous-3088'
>> DCOP: register 'kpersonalizer-3284' -> number of clients is now
>> 1QFont::setPoint
>> Size: Point size <= 0 (-3)
>>
>> WARNING: Problem deleting stale lockfile
>> /opt/kde3.4/home/share/config/kpersonal
>> izerrc.lock
>> WARNING: Problem deleting stale lockfile
>> /opt/kde3.4/home/share/config/kpersonal
>> izerrc.lock
>> WARNING: Problem deleting stale lockfile
>> /opt/kde3.4/home/share/config/kpersonal
>> izerrc.lock
>> WARNING: Problem deleting stale lockfile
>> /opt/kde3.4/home/share/config/kpersonal
>>
>> Thanks a lot for your help
>>
>> -- 
>> Karim YOUSFI
>>
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>>
> I installed KDE according to
>
>
>
> http://webdev.cegit.de/snapshots/kde-cygwin/kde/kde3.4/
>
>
>
> and installation went smootly. However, KDE did not start up - kdeinit
> hung
> without further information. After quite a while I figured out that the
> problem was the missing *cygart_lgpl-2.dll* coming with *libart_lgpl2*.
> Maybe this information could be updated as the above installation
> procedure
> does advise to install *libart_lgpl. *That'll be very helpful.
The requirement list on the website your refered contains already
libart_lgpl2

1. install required cygwin packages 

	cygwin xorg-x11-base freetype2 fontconfig libxslt libxml2 libiconv libtiff5 openssl libbz2_1 
	zlib libpcre0 jpeg libaspell15 ***libart_lgpl2*** libsasl2 ash rebase

BTW: nice to hear that this release still runs.

Ralf