On Wednesday 04 August 2004 20:32, you wrote:
> Hello Davide,
>
> Newer versions of pkg_add can do this - try 'pkgtools/pkg_install'.
>
Yes! Thank you, I did not know it! Now it works!
> > Let me explain... I tried several ways to install KDE on
> > my NetBSD/i386 (various versions, 1.6.1, 1.6.2, -current, now
> > 2.0_BETA), but none worked. In the NetBSD/i386 1.6.2
> > binary packages directory on NetBSD's ftp site kdelibs-3.?.?.tgz
> > is missing, so I tried to manually install kdelibs-3.2.3.
>
> Same here :-( Maybe it has something to do with
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-help/2004/06/28/0006.html
>
> > I tried to compile kde from scratch as well... but
> > g++ compiling qt3-libs-3.3.2 always hangs :-(
>
> Without any error message? Maybe you're running out of disk-space or your
> systems is getting unstable (heat). Compiling KDE eats CPU-power and
> disk-space like popcorn.
>
Yes, without any error message... but it isn't important anymore, because 
I manually pkg_add'ed qt3-libs and then compiled kde from source.
Now it works perfectly!
> At last you could try to compile or get KDE from the release pkgsrc / pkgs.
> AFAIR this would be KDE 3.1.4 .
>
> HTH
>
> -Alex

Thank you very much,

Davide