I finally downloaded KDE 3.0 (the slackpacks), and installed it. And only one problem: It doesn''t work (kdeinit to be specific). Here''s all it says: kdeinit: error while loading shared libraries: cannot open shared object file: cannot load shared object file: No such file or directory Anyone know what''s up? rm -rf /bin/laden

It sounds like a dependency issue. You need a library you don''t have (or have an older version of). The error message isn''t being very helpful about finding out which one though. Try doing (I don''t know if there''s a ''real'' way of doing this, so I do it the lazy way) strings `which kdeinit` | grep ''\.so'' to find exactly what versions of libraries it wants you to have.

I can''t even do that. It says kdeinit is no such file or directory... silly strings...

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ldd kdeinit should do the trick. It will tell you which libraries are required and if they''re found or not (kdeinit is an ELF executable file, not a script, at least in KDE2).

Hope this helps.

Well, at least I know what I''m missing now... Don''t know what it''s for though: libfam. wth is that?

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quote: Original post by CmndrM
Well, at least I know what I''m missing now... Don''t know what it''s for though: libfam. wth is that?

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FAM was made by SGI (it basically keeps the files states updated in realtime and tells your application about changes). You can get it at http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/. Note that you will have to build a new kernel with imon.

Hope this helps.

Actually, I ended up getting a Slackpack for FAM from http://www.linuxpackages.com, and KDE3 now rocks!

I''ve noticed a couple of minor bugs, but nothing important. The best improvement over 2.x though is the speed -- KDE 3.0 loads up very fast.

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i prefer fluxbox/gtk+

but, hey... i''m also a bsd person too *shrugs*

so obviously you''re all weird

Hey, I''m a BSD man myslef, and I don''t know how one can refuse the use of Qt...or KDEs adaption of it

I am currently downloading the FreeBSD KDE-3 ports now.

I''ve also been meaning to try out fluxbox too

Fluxbox is cool. If I could get Fluxbox to work with KDE (i.e., use Fluxbox as the window manager and keep KDE as the desktop environment), that would be the best. I also like GTK+, but I think Qt looks cooler than GTK+ in general.

By the way, if anyone knows how you can use a different WM for KDE, let me know

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