On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:10:45 -0700, AGT wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:16:20 -0500, Dave Uhring wrote:

>> On the next login GNOME came back up without problems so I'll wait a bit
>> to see if KDE will actually start.
>
> good luck : >

konqueror and kpdf work well. Those were really the only apps which I
wanted out of KDE.

>> mplayer is something of an oddball. Its configure script looks like
>> one created with GNU autoconf but it's not. Only gmake can be used and
>> forget about trying to use Studio12.
>
> I tried for a while but theres too many GNUisms in there. gmake is
> nearly always a given with this Penguinware stuff : < I usually just env
> MAKE=gmake

I forgot to mention.... A few months back mplayer's configure script
added something which pukes using #!/bin/sh. Change the she-bang to
#!/usr/bin/bash. The penguins usually symlink /bin/bash to /bin/sh; after
all, they're the same, aren't they?