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Operating Systems Linux Help:- Just clean installed OpenSUse10 with Gnome, now want KDE Post 98050 by cbkihong on Sunday 5th of February 2006 09:26:26 AM
Old 02-05-2006
I messed with my boss's OpenSuSE 10 installation a few months earlier installing a KDE for him and getting the menu item to appear in the window manager list in KDM/GDM. I don't have access to the installation now so I no longer confirm, but this is recalled from my memory.

The system was originally installed with only Gnome.

Just use the package manager and install with the CD-ROMs/DVD-ROM/whatever, and select KDE. Depending on the interface you can reach, the approach may be different. I reached the individual package selection screen (the disaster!). The only sensible way to proceed was to select some known sub-package of KDE, say kdepim. YaST will then calculate the dependencies upwards and select all other packages needed.

But my experience (probably just unfortunate enough) was that even many KDE packages was installed, the window manager list may not get updated if you don't have one of the package installed which don't get automatically selected, which modifies the window manager list. The package name was kde-session or similar, but I forgot. You need that package before the package list will be modified.

If you don't have anything critical on it you may just do a fresh reinstall, though if you would like to experiment (like I did) you may wish to try it out adding an entire KDE after the Gnome system was installed. That is likely to kill you some time. Smilie
 

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KDE4-CONFIG(1)							 KDE User's Manual						    KDE4-CONFIG(1)

NAME
kde4-config - Prints KDE installation paths SYNOPSIS
kde4-config [--expandvars] [--prefix] [--exec-prefix] [--libsuffix] [--localprefix] [--version] [--types] [--path type] [--userpath type] [--install type] DESCRIPTION
kde4-config is a command line program used to retrieve information about KDE installation or user paths. Use this program to determine where the various aspects of the KDE installation reside on your system. OPTIONS
--expandvars expand ${prefix} and ${exec_prefix} in output --prefix Compiled in prefix for KDE libraries --exec-prefix Compiled in exec_prefix for KDE libraries --libsuffix Compiled in library path suffix --localprefix Prefix in $HOME used to write files --version Compiled in version string for KDE libraries --types Print a list of all available KDE resource types --path type Search path for the specified type --userpath type User paths for the types: desktop|autostart|trash|document --install type Prefix to install resource files to EXAMPLES
Print the top-level KDE installation directory: % kde4-config --prefix Print a list of all resource types: % kde4-config --types Print the installed wallpaper path: % kde4-config --path wallpaper SEE ALSO
kdeoptions(7) BUGS
None known. AUTHOR
Stephan Kulow <coolo@kde.org>. K Desktop Environment 2007-09-28 KDE4-CONFIG(1)
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