installing KDE

Dominic Marks dominic_marks at btinternet.com
Wed Feb 13 11:04:43 GMT 2002


Hey,

On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 10:56:18AM +0000, Natalie Ford wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 04:22:41AM +0100, David Foulis wrote:
> > OK I got the address and I've just managed to get 4.5 which has quite a lot
> > more on it than 4.4 / good.
> > It's sunday morning and I've just finished installing 4.5 on a new board I
> > got. So I just saw your mail now a couple of minutes ago.
> > I can send it on monday morning and it will arrive on wednesday or thursday.
> 
> It has just arrived.  Thank you.  Now for a couple of questions:
> 
> I can't remember how to mount the CD!  :)

# mount /cdrom

Should work in most cases.

> Can I install KDE of the CD?  I already have 4.5 on the PC now by
> doing a make world (etc.), but kde still won't build without a core
> dump...

You can. pkg_add -v /cdrom/packages/kde/kde.tgz

Or similar should work. Finding the right place on the CD should be
quite easy and then just pkg_add the packages.

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