Re: [TCLUG:6915] relocating RedHat KDE RPMs -- UPDATE

[Yao-Pin Kuo <kuo@math.umn.edu>]

Hi
    I do not use KDE coming with RH6.0 now, casue my system is too slow to
use KDE under RH 6.0. So the following may not be correct.
    About the library, you should add something like  /opt/kde/lib
in the file /etc/ld.so.conf and run /sbin/ldconfig.
    Also, for KDE, there is some environment variable like KDEDIR, you
should setup it. Redhat may put some file like kde.sh or kde.csh in your
/etc/profile.d, you should look at it and modify it to fit your situation.
Hope this will help you.
   
On Sat, 10 Jul 1999, Joel A Koepp wrote:

> 
> Well, I posted a question about this a while back, and I finally went
> ahead and tried it. 
> 
> Downloaded RedHat's KDE RPM's from RedHat 6.0 Updates, and installed them
> with --relocate /usr=/opt/kde (I had created /opt as a separate partition
> a long time ago when KDE first came out)
> 
> Files installed there just fine. I thought I was in good shape. The first
> bad sign was when I tried to run kppp from Window Maker (what I use
> primarily) and it gave me the error about not loading shared libraries.
> Seen it before. Well, for a lark, I copied the ones it was complaining
> about from /opt/kde/lib to /usr/lib. . . and it worked. Hmph. Well, I made
> KDE my interface and logged back in. Icons are all missing, help system
> won't work, and it couldn't find templates, mime types, etc., so I'm
> assuming it's expecting to find appropriate material in /usr/share, when
> it's actually in /opt/kde/share.
> 
> So, to the very small percentage of you who may have even considered this
> project--don't. It's a pain. Maybe I'm in a small minority, but shame
> on RedHat for making this stuff only work if you put it in /usr. I wish
> they had just left things the way KDE designed them and made KDE install
> into /opt/kde. 
> 
> Now I'm going to spend the rest of the evening downloading stuff from
> ftp.us.kde.org (Grrr....)
> 
> Cheers,
> Joel
> 
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