 | | | Desktop & Desktop Apps | Desktop & Desktop Apps 2005-08-12 - By Brian Long
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On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 12:46 -0700, taroon-list@(protected) wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am currently running RHEL on my desktop primarily because the tools
> (EDA) that I use are supported by the vendor only on RHEL (as far as
> Linux is concerned).
>
> To satisfy my need to run the latest KDE/GNOME/Evolution etc, I have
> been using konstruct and garnome to compile them from source and install
> them whereever I want that doesn't need root privileges. This process in
> itself is painful. Although konstruct and garnome are great compile
> scripts, they don't ever work out of the box. I always have to fix
> little things everytime I use them.
>
> Is anybody aware of a fink-like or portage-like or any-other-fancy-new
> distribution system that can augment the way packages/applications are
> installed ? What would/do you, other RHEL users, do or use ?
Have you tried the KDE packages from http://kde-redhat.sf.net? They
provide binary RPMs (yum and apt repos) for RHEL 3 and 4. KDE 3.4.2 is
in their testing repository now and I'm sure it will be considered
stable in the coming weeks.
I have not used their latest packages, but I have integrated their work
into Red Hat 7.3 about 2 years ago (at the time, KDE 3.1.4 on top of RH
7.3). It worked like a charm.
I do not know of a similar project for GNOME.
/Brian/
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