Re: Debian KDE 3 packages using a different kde_htmldir
Daniel Stone writes:
Daniel> On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 08:09:11PM +0100, David Pye wrote:
>> While perhaps related to debian, and packaging, I'd like to add
>> that third party KDE-based apps also seem unable to locate other
>> files, such as .ui files, which locate themselves in
>> /usr/local/kde/share/apps/<appname>.
>>
>> Even though compiled locally, the apps themselves can't then find
>> these files. I had to move these to my own
>> ~/.kde/share/apps/<appname> as the other one doesn't appear to be
>> searched properly.
>>
>> (JuK, for those interested, is broken if compiled on Debian with
>> these packages, and segfaults when trying to play ANYTHING, until
>> I fixed it as described above)
Daniel> *sigh*, this isn't anything to do with the packages. export
Daniel> KDEDIRS=/usr:/usr/local. KDE has no clue that you've
Daniel> installed JuK to /usr/local, so you're going to have to tell
Daniel> it, if you decide to split your KDE installation over two
Daniel> prefixes.
Hmm.. rereading your email, why can't the packages just set
KDEDIRS ( or the corresponding option ) to
"/usr/:/usr/local:/usr/local/kde", so that users won't have to deal
with problems like the above ?
cheers
domi
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