KDE on Solaris 10 from Companion DVD...
Hi all,
Can someone please help? I am trying to crossover to Solaris as I don't want to use "that other OS" anymore ;-) But need KDE as I have used it before.
I have installed Solaris 10 successfully and I (think) I have installed the companion dvd contents to /opt/sfw.
I have run the kde-dtlogin script and KDE appears as an option in the session list, but when I try and login (to KDE), it returns back to the login screen.
I have found a number of posts but they are way over my head and I need step by step help. I do not have gcc configured properly and I understand the runtime libraries are required by KDE
Can someone please help? I appreciate you might need more info so please ask, and help my cause of making my virtual world a Unix one!
Many thanks
Justin
[818 byte] By [
5ustina] at [2007-11-26 17:09:16]
# 1
Hi.
The latest KDE (which is 3.4.3) can be found here:
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/packages/solaris/freeware/KDE/IA32AMD32/
Sources are here:
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/packages/solaris/freeware/KDE/SOURCES/IA32AMD32/
You need a recent Xeon, Pentium4 or AMD chip with mmx/sse2
instructions enabled.
Installation instructions are here:
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/packages/solaris/freeware/KDE/INSTALLATION/
and here:
http://solaris.kde.org/instructions.php
3.4.3 which is kind of old but I heard that 3.5.x packages will come soon.
# 2
Have you tried java desktop yet? I used to use KDE on linux but JDS on solaris is so stable that I slowly fell in love with it even though gnome always bugged me before. Of course if you are looking for eye candy you will be sorely disappointed.
you could always force yourself to use Open Windows for a week or two, after that everything will be pretty.
