[rescue] Wooohhhooo KDE on Ultrasparc (Solaris 8)

[George Adkins]

I found a .pkg of KDE 2.2 and am running it under Solaris 8 as I write this 
now...

the Package claims to install under 2.6, 7 and 8

Caveats:
you have to force Xsun to run 24bit or KDE looks crappy (go figure)
Installing the package is a little hairy (just a little), it wants a Metric 
Buttload (tm) of /tmp space (it's a 90M .pkg), and it default installs in the 
home of the executing user.  This meant that it tried to install in 
/root/usr/local/kde on me, because I force Solaris to put root's home in 
/root (where it belongs...).  I had to change root's root back to / (root's 
root to root, heh heh, that's funny at 12:30 PM) and install it from a text 
login prompt to get it to go into the right place.
It had some funky problems untill I got the Solaris Library path problem 
worked out,  you need to have /usr/local/kde/lib in the library path.  I just 
hard-linked some of the libraries into /usr/lib.  Does anyone know where you 
change solaris' global path and libpath variables at? (no, not for just one 
user at a time, for the whole system...?)

http://dot.kde.org/999284589 and go to the bottom.  Look for the last long 
post.

George