KDE on Solaris 10

Sunfreeware.com has agreed to host Stefan Teleman's port of the KDE graphical desktop environment to Solaris 10 for SPARC and Intel/AMD systems. The files can be found in the KDE subdirectories at the ftp sites below and eventually at all the sunfreeware.com mirror sites (see the link to the left of the main sunfreeware.com web page). Due to the large number of files, and the large size of some of the files, it is recommended that you use mirror sites when you can.

ftp://ftp.sunfreeware.com/pub/freeware/KDE/

ftp://sunfreeware.mirrors.tds.net/pub/sunfreeware/KDE/

Files and many details about KDE can also be found at the KDE Solaris site

solaris.kde.org

The installation information can be found in the main KDE download directories or at

OLD.KDE_INSTALLATION_INSTRUCTIONS

(yes, the OLD is correct).

If you want to get the source code for the above packages, go to the directories for Intel/AMD or for SPARC at:

ftp://ftp.sunfreeware.com/pub/freeware/KDE/SOURCES/IA32AMD32

ftp://ftp.sunfreeware.com/pub/freeware/KDE/SOURCES/ULTRASPARC-II

Detail building instructions for KDE are at

NEW KDE Solaris, Building Instructions for Solaris 10 with the Sun Studio Compilers (pdf file)

For help with KDE-Solaris issues, you can go to the

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