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Saturday, December 1, 2012

Milestone KDE is working

I will try and go back and document what I did to get KDE working, but the biggest thing was to get MesaLib installed. I had the xfce environment working for a few weeks now, but I want KDE. I compiled everything that was necessary for it, except the kde-desktop. That continued to get an error because of a missing library. That was supposed to be built in MesaLib. When I originally built MesaLib I could not get it built per the book, so I ended up just typing configure and make. That left out the library KDE needed. So I went back and rebuilt MesaLib starting with everything, and eliminating lines to configure until I found something that worked. I am still not certain what caused the KDE-Desktop to fail, I need to go back and figure out the exact culprit. But for now I have something that works, Rebuilding Mesa made me have to go back and rebuild some other thing that were built on the original Mesa, like kdelibs, but for now I will take what I have.