Yesterday I decided to install the new KDE 4 on my Slackware 12 so I started looking around for a repository with the packages (since on the official one there’s no trace). After a little search on google i found out this:
The repository seemed having all the packages I needed so I began the download (there’s no index so it’s impossible to use softwares such swaret or slapt-get). After saving all the packages into a folder and running an “installpkg *” command I logged out and tried to lunch the new kde. Unfortunately an error occurred… was impossible to execute kdestartupconfig4 due to the fact that was missing GLIBCXX 3.4.6 (this was pretty wired since GLIBCXX library is inside the libstdc++ package which is installed in my system).
In the end, after long thinking, I found out how to solve the problem… It was necessary to install also the packages gcc-4.2.3-i486-1 and gcc-g++-4.2.3-i486-1. After this everything worked well!
I hope you’ll enjoy the new kde!
April 24, 2008 at 9:58 am
Note: These packages are build on Slackware Current and meant to replace KDE 3.5.X. It is not recommend to install them on a stock Slackware 12.0.
Best Regards
Marcus
April 27, 2008 at 12:51 am
As Marcus stated, those packages are intended for Slackware -current (soon to be 12.1).
That’s stated in the _README file – is there some better name I can give it so that people will read it?