Re: CentOS 5.1 and KDE 4.0.2

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Rex Dieter <[email protected]> wrote:
> George Galt wrote:
>> I've hunted through the archives and various places on the web to see
>> if KDE 4.0.2 can be installed in a CentOS 5.1 i386 system, but so far
>> little luck.  I'm assuming that it is not yet available for CentOS in
>> RPM form.  The best I have found are some instructions on installing
>> it from source, but it required an upgrade of the kernel as there was
>> some concern that kdenetwork-4.0.1 would fail to compile on kernels
>> prior to 2.6.20 (CentOS 5 is on 2.6.18).  I'd rather not change
>> kernels (and if anyone has ideas on this, please let me know).
>>
>> Is there any plan for KDE 4 on CentOS through kde-redhat?  If you need
>> any help, can I provide some assistance (testing, building, etc.)?
>
> No immediate plans.
>
> CentOS5 is missing a *lot* of dependencies, but could be doable with
> good helping of time and effort.
>
> Maybe when kde-4.1 hits the streets, I'll personally revisit this and
> see how to make it happen.
>
> -- Rex
>
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Rex:

Thanks.  I've got a laptop with CentOS 5.1 on it that I can blow-up if
necessary.  I'll try the source/kernel route and see what happens.

George

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