Kde 3.2 in Slack

[another_noob]

I'm in need of some help I wanted to install slack with kde 3.2 so I downloaded from linux packages arts, qt and kdebase. I installed slack and deseleted all of the kde, qt and the arts packages from the install. Once I booted the system I install the new packages and did startx. But I'm getting an error

kdeinit not found please check your install

I'm not sure where to start help please.

[mdwatts]

According to SuSE 9.0, kdeinit is included in the kdelibs3 package.

# rpm -qf /opt/kde3/bin/kdeinit
kdelibs3-3.1.4-38

It could be that since you deselected the kde related packages during the initial installation, the kde config files in /etc/X11 (perhaps others) were not created and the kde directory variables not set.

Find out where kdeinit resides and see if adding the path to your PATH variable helps.

PATH=$PATH:/path/to/kdeinit

[another_noob]

Thanks for your reply.

I feel really silly having to admit this but the problem was due to the kdelibs, I forgot to install them! D'oh.

So I go that sorted and it spat out some other errors about libfam and I installed the fam package and now it's all up and running.

Now onto my next task

Thanks again