Re: KDE Beta-3

[Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 <graham.lillico@gecm.com>]

>> >  trying to install KDE beta-3, I have downloaded the .deb files and I am
>> > trying to install them but it is saying that I need libgif2 or greater,
Does
>> > anyone know where I can get this from as I can't find it anywhere?  And is
it
>> > avaliable in .deb format?
>> 
>>    KDE is sort of a non-Debian *.deb.  As I understand it the package was
made by
>> the KDE folks and is still pretty broken.  I found it was interesting that
it
>> installs itself into /opt rather than /usr/local or some other standard
directory.
>> My solution was to kill the package and to wait until there is real Debian
support
>> for it.

I ran it on my RedHat system before I upgraded my RedHat Dist and Beta-3 ran ok
not many problems at all.  I would but I don't like many of the others window
managers.   /opt is new directory in the FHS if i remember correclty, Netscape
Communicator 4 will install itself in there if if exists by default to.

Regards

Graham

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