Re: [Sheflug] KDE 3.1 On OpenBSD

["Chris J" <cej [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

And Lo! The Great Prophet " Netsonic" uttered these words of wisdom...
> Recently I've been trying out the various BSD's to get a feel for them and
> have decided on OpenBSD for one of my disks.

Good choice ;)

> The download of OpenBSD is OK, as are the updates for XFree86, but having
> searched on various KDE sites, I can't seem to find the files to setup KDE
> 3.1.
>
> The only possibles I have found are:
>
> 1. Source files at ftp.kde.org
> 2. The FreeBSD files at freebsd.kde.org
>
> Can anybody point me at the right ones for KDE 3.1 on OpenBSD ?

A full answer is going to have to wait 'til I get home and can poke around
more as I've no OBSD boxes here. Unless someone has created a port of KDE
(read up about the "ports" collection at http://www.openbsd.org/ports.html),
you're probably left with building KDE from source.

Congratulations :)

I've never built KDE from source so I don't know what's involved, but I
suspect it's a lengthy job. OpenBSD does however support running Linux
binaries (it may also support FreeBSD binaries, I can't remember), so you
could in theory mount your Linux partitions, and run KDE through that
method. The OpenBSD handboook (at www.openbsd.org) should have something
about binary compatibility.

A couple of things for you to look into for now. As I said, I'll do more
digging when I get home.

Chris...

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