Back up your existing ~/.xinitrc file and create a new .xinitrc file to start KDE:
echo "exec startkde" > ~/.xinitrc
If you installed the desktop-file-utils-0.10 package, update the MIME-type application database (as root):
update-desktop-database
Ensure all libraries can be found with (as root):
ldconfig
At this point you can bring up KDE with:
startx
Last updated on 2005-08-01 13:29:19 -0600