[csw-users] Problem with the CSW install of KDE-GCC on Solaris10

[Andrew Chandler]

Thanks - I'll give it a try in the morning when I get to work!
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: users-bounces+andy=riftware.com at lists.blastwave.org 
> [mailto:users-bounces+andy=riftware.com at lists.blastwave.org] 
> On Behalf Of Markus Mayer
> Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 8:34 PM
> To: questions and discussions
> Subject: Re: [csw-users] Problem with the CSW install of 
> KDE-GCC on Solaris10
> 
> On Wednesday, 02 Nov 2005 09:27 -0800, Andy Chandler wrote:
> 
> > KDE starts but no icons and the animated startup progress 
> screen looks 
> > like a bunch of colored blocks - basically there are no graphical 
> > resources - originally I had graphics but just no title bars for 
> > minimizing / maximizing windows but now I've lost even the basic 
> > desktop icons and the kicker icons.
> 
> You may have run into the same problem I saw this week-end 
> after upgrading to the latest KDE from unstable: the windows 
> didn't have frames around them (as if no window-manager was 
> running), the panel looked weird, etc.
> 
> In this case your KDE problems won't have anything to do with 
> what you did, that would just be coincidence.
> 
> See
>   http://www.blastwave.org/mantis/view_bug_page.php?f_id=1246
> for more.
> 
> If you click on [Main] from there you'll see this note:
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>   In relation to Solaris 8/9, a move was made to start including kwin
>   and kxkb in KDE under Solaris. You'll find the main kdebase packages
>   as:
> 
>   http://www.blastwave.org/testing
>   kdebase_gcc-3.4.3,REV=2005.10.27-SunOS5.8-i386-CSW.pkg.gz
>   kdebase_gcc-3.4.3,REV=2005.10.27-SunOS5.8-sparc-CSW.pkg.gz
> 
>   Or, the older stable package:
>   kdebase_gcc-3.4.2,REV=2005.09.20-SunOS5.8-i386-CSW.pkg.gz
>   kdebase_gcc-3.4.2,REV=2005.09.20-SunOS5.8-sparc-CSW.pkg.gz
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> I just checked, it has not been propagated to the mirrors 
> yet, so you'll have to grab that package from testing and 
> install it manually.
> 
>   gzip -d kdebase_gcc-3.4.3,REV=2005.10.27-SunOS5.8-sparc-CSW.pkg.gz
>   pkgrm CSWkdebasegcc
>   pkgadd -d kdebase_gcc-3.4.3,REV=2005.10.27-SunOS5.8-sparc-CSW.pkg
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> -Markus
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