From: Gary Britt 

Your messages make it seem like Linux still has a long way to go to be a
desktop operating system.

Gary

Randall Parker wrote:
> Running KDE 3.5.5 now. What I did to get there:
>
> Logged in as root. Typed this:
>>  yum groupinstall "KDE (K Desktop Environment)"
>
> It ran for a while and asked me if it was okay to get 125 Megs of stuff
> and I answered y and hit return.
>
> Rebooting did not give me a choice of KDE. So instructions to that
> effect are wrong.
>
> Then I had to log in as root and edit:
> /etc/sysconfig/desktop
>
> That file was empty.
>
> I added two lines:
>
> DESKTOP="KDE"
> DISPLAYMANAGER="KDE"
>
> I saved and rebooted. Now I am in KDE and feel much better about the
> world. The war in Iraq? The trade deficit? CO2 atmospheric build-up? It
> all seems much more manageable with KDE.
>
> Randall Parker wrote:
>> I might have an answer to my own question:
>>
>> Went here:
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KDE
>>
>> and found this command to do at the command line as root:
>>
>> yum groupinstall "KDE (K Desktop Environment)"
>>
>> It is currently doing lots of stuff.
>>
>> Randall Parker wrote:
>>> I started here:
>>> http://download.kde.org/download.php?url=stable/3.5.5/
>>>
>>> Then I went to these pages:
>>>
>>> http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu/pub/software/kde/stable/3.5.5/
>>> ftp://ftp.oregonstate.edu/pub/kde/stable/3.5.5/
>>> ftp://carroll.aset.psu.edu/pub/kde/stable/3.5.5/
>>>
>>> They list:
>>>
>>> Directory: Pardus           10/10/2006      10:17:00 PM
>>> Directory: SuSE         08/01/2006     12:11:00 PM
>>> Directory: contrib         10/13/2006     04:22:00 AM
>>> Directory: kubuntu         10/16/2006     09:59:00 PM
>>> Directory: src
>>>
>>> The contrib directory has Slackware.
>>>
>>> So where can I get Fedora KDE?
>>>
>>> I even went back to 3.5.4 and did not find it:
>>>
>>> ftp://ftp.oregonstate.edu/pub/kde/stable/3.5.4/

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