Ok, there's seems to be no consensus on how to go about installing KDE. Here's my situation:

I just installed a fresh 2.2.6 install over FTP. So far, so good.

I have XFree86 running fine with the default window manager (ugh).

I've gathered from reading around that I do NOT want to install from the files downloaded from the KDE website. Instead, use the ports from the FreeBSD site. Very well...

Using /stand/sysintall, the port version listed is 3.1. Not what I want (4.1).

The version listed in /usr/ports/x11/kde is also 3.1 :(

The version listed at http://www.freebsd.org/ports/x11.html is 4.1. YES.

HOWEVER... it gets confusing. There are a bunch of files (kdebase, kdelibs, giflib, jpeg, qt) that are needed, and order is unclear. Ahh... but the "meta-port" claims to be a one-stop shop to get KDE installed.

So I download the 4.1 metaport. And I start installing it... only to see it start trying to grab 3.1 files. BAD... (it can't find them anyways). I abort.

Ok, so I'll try it by hand... install the individual packages by-hand, in the best order I can figure. giflib, jpeg, and qt all installed fine. Looks like the next is kdelibs... go to install it, and I get errors. It requires bzip2, which it fetches, then bails on an md5/checksum error. Grrr...

OK what the heck do I need to do to get 4.1 running?

Thanks in advance...

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