Mandrake 9.0, upgrade to KDE 3.1

So, after using RedHat exclusively for 4 years, I've decided to try Mandrake 9.0 on the new laptop. It installed (failry) flawlessly and even detected, and (almost) properly configured my Orinoco wireless NIC, which RedHat 8 failed to do (RedHat 7.3 and prior detected and configured it all okay in the past on different laptops). The only thing I had to do was add an "s:" in front of the security key in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1. No biggie.

And now the real reason we're here...

Installation/Upgrade to KDE 3.1:
I downloaded all the KDE RPMs from
ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.0/KDE-3.1 using wget to a location in my home directory.
Drop to a command shell as root and type init 3, to close out X and KDE.
Then cd to the directory and type "rpm -Uvh *.rpm" ... get some coffee.
I discovered a few miscalenous RPMS that I also needed to do the build, after you grab those, and install you should be able to type "init 5" and be launched into kde 3.1!
Next I decided to get Mosfet Liquid running. I downloaded the rpm from Tex (liquid-0.9.6pre4-2tex.i586.rpm) and was off to the races. After installing, you'll need to logout of KDE and log back in. Start kcontrol and there should be a "Mosfet Liquid" option that shows up in the navigation pane. Follow the instructions at Mosfet's website for details on how to setup/configure it.

As a side note, KDE 3.1 implements a lot of the neat features that are in Mosfet's Liquid theme, so you may want to check out some of those as well.

Created by swannie on 2003-02-18 08:59:46, modified by swannie on 2003-02-19 16:41:06.
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