A reboot is not strictly required, but it's a nice little test. If you reboot, then re-login as root and execute step 1 again, then continue with step 4. 4. Now we need to get the new QT library in place. Versions of KDE prior to KDE 2.0.0 used QT version 1.44 but the new one depends on QT 2.2.x Notice that contrary to the glibc upgrade we do not use the 'upgradepkg' command. There is a very good reason for this.
Next step is to install the mesa library.
You may think that you don't need mesa, but you probably do. Some of the new KDE 2 programs are linked with that library and will not run if it's not installed. The final library we need to install is openssl. Just like with the mesa library use 'upgradepkg' or 'installpkg' depending on whether or not you already have openssl installed. Now we have everything installed KDE 2 needs, so now we move on to the really fun part of actually installing KDE 2 itself.