building of KDE3.2 process fairly painless just watch for ./configure and satisfy it's dependecies export CC=gcc-3.3 export CXX=g++-3.3 export KDEDIR=/usr/local/kde ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/kde make install the order isn't all that important once the basics are build (as showed above) arts kdelibs kdebase kdeutils kdenetwork kdeadmin kdemultimedia kdegraphics kdesdk kdedevelop ..and so on #blinking cursor see http://lists.trolltech.com/qt-interest/2002-09/thread00571-0.html the app.setCursorFlashTime(9999999); from kdevelop is also applicable to kate and kwrite kdebase-3.2.0/kate/app/kwritemain.cpp kdebase-3.2.0/kate/app/katemain.cpp make install