"KDE 3.5 on SUSE Linux 10" for VMware Player

Submitted by beineri on Mon, 01/02/2006 - 21:07

KDE General

Announcing something which has been cooking already last year but got delayed by POTS bandwidth shortage over the holidays:

VMware released a player for free with which you can run pre-built virtual machines. Somehow their virtual machine center offers under "Novell" only SLES and NLD images. I created an image which contains a standard KDE desktop installation of SUSE Linux 10.0 OSS, upgraded to KDE 3.5 including KOffice 1.4.2 excluding non-KDE applications. It's a fully working installation so don't forget to install and try some additional KDE applications - and to run the security update when you're asked to.

You can download it from developer.kde.org archived either as 588 MB flavor for Microsoft Windows or 537 MB for Linux.

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make error

Submitted by flashm on Wed, 04/05/2006 - 22:48.

I downloaded the suse image a while ago and jsut started lookng at now. So far it's been very cool!

One thing though - how can I install software using make? I am trying to install a cisco vpn client but all I get is:

make -C /usr/src/linux-2.6.13-15.7-obj/i386/smp SUBDIRS=/usr/local/vpnclient modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.13-15.7-obj/i386/smp'
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `modules'. Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.13-15.7-obj/i386/smp'
make: *** [default] Error 2
Failed to make module "cisco_ipsec.ko".

I'm new to all this make stuff... maybe I'm making some obvious mistake?

mp3, dvd, vcd, mpeg, wmp support?

Submitted by azhar on Sun, 01/15/2006 - 00:51.

Hello,
I am newbe in this linux and vm thing. Today I downloaded vmplayer and KDE 3.5 SUSE vmx. It rocks, however I would like multimedia support (mp3, dvd, vcd, mpeg, wmp, DivX support). I know there are all sorts of libraries out there. My experience is not good with them because while installing something I may break something else. I need which specific libraries required for this vmx? and how to get them?

I would like someone to try it first on this vmx based SUSE before recommending.
Thanks,
Azhar

Downloaded it, works fine

Submitted by captdirk on Sat, 01/07/2006 - 09:26.

I downloaded the file. It works fine, except for two problems:

1. When you created the VM, you only allocated 4GB of virtual hard drive space. Why did you do that? Can I increase this to 100GB?

2. When I create a new user account and then log in, KDE fails to start. A simple window manager shows up (TWM?).

> When you created the VM,

Submitted by beineri on Sat, 01/07/2006 - 17:22.

> When you created the VM, you only allocated 4GB of virtual hard drive space. Why did you do that?

Because it was the default? Dunno. I remember trying also with 10GB but that resulted in a grub boot problem during installation.

> Can I increase this to 100GB?

No, you cannot change the maximum size of disk images.

But what you can do is, download a disk image (like VM_komplett/ide_disk_100gb.vmdk) and add it to your virtual machine by adding to the .vmx file:

ide1:1.present = "TRUE"
ide1:1.fileName = "ide_disk_100gb.vmdk"

After booting (select "Previous Version" at the dialog) you can partition /dev/hdd, mount and move stuff to your new 100GB drive.

> When I create a new user account and then log in, KDE fails to start.

How did you create the new user? I tested adding a new user via YaST and he started with KDE desktop. Can't you choose KDE as session type in the login manager?