Re: Running X and KDE in DragonFly ???

[Steve Mynott <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Justin C. Sherrill wrote:

> It should be the same as FreeBSD - you can install from the ports.  Or from
> dfports, if an override exists.  Install the port for XFree86-4, then kde3. 
> The two caveats I can think of:
>
> - XFree86 may have dependencies that won't install automatically.  I've read
> other folks reporting a need to do a 'make install' directly in the
> depended-on port's directory to get it to work.

I had to do this.

> - KDE 3 may not build; it's big, and I think kde-base should work but I
> don't know if the other parts will.  There's only one way to find out:
> build it.

I installed kde-lite-3.2.1 fine but had to do some 'make installs' as 
you described above,

-- Steve