Re: [TCLUG:6796] relocating Red Hat KDE RPMS

[Peter Lukas <peter@math.umn.edu>]

If the packages were build correctly, you can use the:

`rpm -i --relocate <oldpath>=<newpath> <package>.rpm`

flag or if all else fails, use --badreloc.  The folks at RedHat are pretty
adamant about placing everything in /usr (for better or worse), and that
doesn't always play well with the rest of the *NIX world.

Peter Lukas

On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Joel A. Koepp wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm on a 28.8 connection--don't qualify for DSL yet--so I haven't gotten around
> to downloading the kdebase and kdelibs packages from RH 6.0 Updates mirrors.  My
> original KDE stuff is installed in /opt/kde, and I'd like to keep it there. 
> However, I understand that RH's packages now install into /usr, and kde.org
> cautions that some of their version 1.1.1 packages may not work on RH 6.0.  
> 
> So the question is: does anyone have experience relocating Red Hat's KDE 1.1.1
> RPMs to /opt/kde?  It may very well work seamlessly, but I am just trying to
> find out in advance before I spend all that time downloading them.  Also I have
> read that some RPMs can be made to resist relocation.  Should I remove the old
> KDE 1.1 packages?  I seem to remember the ones provided by kde.org included a
> big kde-applications RPM that Red Hat does not offer. 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Joel
> 
> 
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