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>KDE Installation and Configuration</TITLE
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>Chapter 5. Configuring the X Window System</TD
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>5.6. KDE Installation and Configuration</A
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>The K Desktop Package (KDE) is another popular window manager that is
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somewhat more mature than GNOME is at the time of this writing. However,
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it seems to require a bit more memory resources than GNOME does, so take
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into consideration the amount of RAM you have available on your system (if
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you have anything less than 64 Mb of RAM and 128 Mb of swap, you might be
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better off using GNOME).</P
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>The first step for installing KDE is to download the latest RPM
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distribution of the package. To do so, locate an FTP mirror at <A
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HREF="http://www.kde.org/mirrors.html"
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TARGET="_top"
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>http://www.kde.org/mirrors.html</A
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>. Try to choose a mirror that is
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close to your geographic location, but make sure whichever one you choose
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is updated often (which can be determined by looking at the list of
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mirrors).</P
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>When you have found a suitable mirror, download all the RPM files
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which are applicable to your version of Red Hat and your platform. For
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example, if you are using Red Hat 5.2 (or above) on an Intel platform, you
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will likely want to download the package from the
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``<TT
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CLASS="LITERAL"
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><TT
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CLASS="FILENAME"
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>/pub/mirrors/kde/stable/latest/distribution/rpm/RedHat-5.2/i386/</TT
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directory on the FTP mirror.</P
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>After you have all the necessary files, the KDE package can be
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installed with the following simple commands, typed as <SPAN
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CLASS="QUOTE"
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>"root"</SPAN
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(make sure you are in the directory where all your KDE rpm files
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are):</P
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>rpm -Uvh qt*.rpm
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install-kde-1.1-base</PRE
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>The above commands will install the Qt libraries first, and then
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install the KDE base package. Once this is done, you should log off
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and log back in (or if you are ``su''ed as root, just exit and ``su''
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again) so that your path environment is set appropriately, then type:</P
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>install-kde-1.1-apps</PRE
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>The above command will install the applications programs.</P
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>This installation procedure is discussed in more detail in the file
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``<TT
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><TT
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CLASS="FILENAME"
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>readme-redhat-rpms.txt</TT
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></TT
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>'' that
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should have been included with the KDE files you downloaded.</P
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><P
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>If all goes well, and KDE has been installed without any error
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messages, you may, if you wish, configure KDE to be the default window
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manager for any of your users (the one they will see immediately after
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typing ``<TT
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CLASS="LITERAL"
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>startx</TT
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>''), by typing the following, again as
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<SPAN
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>"root"</SPAN
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>:</P
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>/opt/kde/bin/usekde <EM
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>userid</EM
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><P
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>(Make sure you replace <EM
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>userid</EM
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> with an actual
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user id!)</P
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>More information on the K Desktop Environment can be found on the
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KDE web page at <A
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HREF="http://www.kde.org/"
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TARGET="_top"
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>http://www.kde.org/</A
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Don't forget to check out the screen shots,
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located at <A
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HREF="http://www.kde.org/kde2shots.html"
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TARGET="_top"
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>http://www.kde.org/kde2shots.html</A
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