Installing KDE-3.1.3 on 5.1-REL

Herbert herbert at bugat.at
Fri Sep 19 07:34:11 PDT 2003


On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 10:30:22AM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:

> Hello Ladies and Gentlemen,
> 
> I am trying to install KDE, but it fails with the message that it requires
> a working libXext.
> Anyone knows what can fix this? What package is associated with libXext that
> I need to install?

Hei!

libXext.so.6 is installed by XFree86-libraries-4.3.0. Maybe you have an
old version of XFree86 installed that doesn't work with KDE3.
Btw. KDE-3.1.4 is in the ports now, so you maybe want to cvsup first.
You should use portupgrade for upgrading your ports.

Herbert


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