KDE 3.5.5 for 64 bit? [Solved in the best possible way!]

skottish · 2006-10-28 03:33:37

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As some of you know, the new QT (3.3.6-4) breaks parts of KDE. Also, some of you know that the new DBUS (0.93-1) breaks HAL 0.5.8.1-1. Upgrading HAL to 0.5.8.1-3 fixes DBUS. But something in there breaks the KDE mediamanager, which is part of KDE-IOslave. The moral of the story is: KDE is being broken from the inside out with all the new upgrades. If you've been using KDE for a while, you already know this kind of thing happens with big changes; it's a very sensitive and intertwined set of programs.

With that being said, I'm hoping that the upgrade to KDE 3.5.5 will fix all of this. Does anyone have an idea when KDE 3.5.5 is going to make into the 64 bit repos?

skottish · 2006-10-28 07:11:59

Gotta bump...

I went after it through the Arch CVS listings. At almost every juncture I needed to install dependencies (keep that in mind). This is what's happened:

I re-installed QT 3.3.6-4.

'kde-common' compiled and installed just fine. As well as 'arts'. Then came 'kdelibs'...

The "xdg-icon-lookup.patch" file in 'kdelibs' is all sorts of broken. The MD5 sum is wrong (for that file only). The lines to be modified are wrong (in that file only). I ended up hacking what lines were supposed to fix the problem to get it to compile. It did.

After installing that stuff I noticed something really cool: KDE functions so much better with these libraries. The one thing that really excited me is that Konqueror renders way faster. It's feeling a lot more like Firefox or Opera now! And of course, the window decorations work fine again.

Then came 'kdebase'. Ouch. Here is where the errors begin and end:

/usr/bin/ld: warning: libdbus-1.so.2, needed by /usr/lib/libavahi-client.so

GRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!! This is what Snowman has been telling people all day not to symlink to! There is no PKGBUILD more modern than what's on my system. How did the 32 bit builders resolve this particular problem?

scarney · 2006-10-28 07:23:21

im not running Arch64. but i am having the mediamanager problem. cant read any of my drives, making the linux side of my rig useless to me atm. i sure hope something gets fixed, soon.

skottish · 2006-10-28 07:49:13

scarney wrote:

im not running Arch64. but i am having the mediamanager problem. cant read any of my drives, making the linux side of my rig useless to me atm. i sure hope something gets fixed, soon.

Yup. There's a lot broken right now. I was hoping this upgrade would do the trick.

scarney · 2006-10-28 09:40:29

just to let ya know. i upgraded to KDE 3.5.5. no more red [FAIL] at boot/reboot time. and no more mediamanager problem. everything seems well again. now if i could only mount me floppy drive! lol

skottish · 2006-10-28 16:31:21

Scrap this thread. It seems that the KDE Gods (aka Arch devs) are weaving their magic as I write.

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Thanks devs. You rock!

ganja_guru · 2006-10-29 02:40:01

glad to know it works !

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#1 2006-10-28 03:33:37

KDE 3.5.5 for 64 bit? [Solved in the best possible way!]

#2 2006-10-28 07:11:59

Re: KDE 3.5.5 for 64 bit? [Solved in the best possible way!]

#3 2006-10-28 07:23:21

Re: KDE 3.5.5 for 64 bit? [Solved in the best possible way!]

#4 2006-10-28 07:49:13

Re: KDE 3.5.5 for 64 bit? [Solved in the best possible way!]

#5 2006-10-28 09:40:29

Re: KDE 3.5.5 for 64 bit? [Solved in the best possible way!]

#6 2006-10-28 16:31:21

Re: KDE 3.5.5 for 64 bit? [Solved in the best possible way!]

#7 2006-10-29 02:40:01

Re: KDE 3.5.5 for 64 bit? [Solved in the best possible way!]

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