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I have mandrake 9.0 and compiled kde3.1.1a
every package and dependency package compiled correctly, all required libs are installed.
But then there are some things wich are not clearly explained and as a beginner have difficulties to understand.
But on the info page of Konstruct they say this:

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After installation you have to set some variables allowing your system to find
KDE binaries and libraries and KDE to allow to find its own files, for Bash:

export QTDIR=~/kde3.1.1
export KDEDIRS=~/kde3.1.1

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/kde3.1.1/lib
export PATH=~/kde3.1.1/bin:$PATH

Setting KDEHOME too, e.g. "export KDEHOME=~/.kdetest", will tell KDE to save
your settings to this directory and leave default ~/.kde directory unaffected.

On shadow password systems you have to set $(prefix)/bin/kcheckpass SUID root
or SGID shadow - otherwise you will not be able to unlock a locked desktop.

The complete KDE desktop is started with "startkde", most distributions start
it if you set it to the WINDOWMANAGER variable in your shell initializations.

these exports do they have to be typed in the shell or put in a file? and if in a file wich one and where?
Also, where can i set this WINDOWMANAGER ?

I mean, i know it's hard for people to make rpm's since such installations are system dependent, buti spent 2 days (30 hours non-stop) to compile and figure out how things are to be done, to find out that when I restart the x server and log back in, he loads kde 3.0 instead of 3.1.1a and also some of the functions and apps have become unavailable (like he cant find them anymore) for example, Konqueror with some of the buttons missing and Konsole crashing

Any assistance is more then welcome

uhm; i searched the net for rpm's of kde 3.1.1a for mandrake 9.0, but i didnt find any. Believe me, otherwise i woul have used them insteadof going through this.
But i recently found out that my internet modem driver also works in mandrake 9.1, so i have upgraded to that. So now i have kde 3.1, wich is good enough

So ,in other words, if I understand you correctly,
If i´m trying to upgrade my current kde3.1 -> 3.1.2:
i should not bother to set any of these variables except of course for the qt libs?

edit:
in other words, the proper installation procedure would be this then:
-install QT
set up QTdirs (but is that also in /etc/profile ?)
./configure -system-zlib -qt-gif -system-libpng \
-system-libjpeg -plugin-imgfmt-mng -thread -no-stl \
-no-xinerama -no-g++-exceptions
make

-install arts package, then kdelibs, then the rest by using :
./configure
make
make install

and then reboot?

great
i just hope this will overwrite my current kde...
thnx!

thnx
this should really help a lot.
I really appreciate that!

it isnt working at all
after i logged off and back in, nothing changed one bit.
kde control center still said i was running kde3.1.0
you sure i dont need to export vars?

edit: fixed it, i did need to export them.
But now i can find my mandrake control center and configuration menu anymore

the packages are still there, but I cant reinstall them for some reason:
the install button does nothing because the packages are already installed.
The uninstall button says that these packages are needed by a whole list of other packages.
And that application detection program to update your menu only works for kde and gnome apps.

edit: I ran menudrake manually and saved the usual menu config, but it sstill takes the kde style menu.
Any way to deactivate that?