Re: KDEDIR and Debian packages
Montreal Thu Feb 18 17:21:22 1999
George Richard Russell <george.russell@clara.net> wrote:
> Navindra Umanee wrote:
>
> > Personally, I recommend that you don't use the .debs because you won't
> > find debs for any of the many other KDE applications available. I
> > think it is better that you keep KDE separate in /opt/kde or
> > /usr/local/kde and use a program such as Smart Install to keep track
> > of KDE packages.
> >
> > You might also steal /etc/menu-methods/kde from the .debs before you
> > get rid of them (and edit it to use a proper directory).
>
> Could you expand on how to do this? I installed from the same source
> tarballs as on Suse, and the configure script didn't detect it was being
> installed on debian. So I have no debian menus in kpanel :-(
You probably need a configure option (--debian or --enable-debian or
--with-debian?). Dunno.
> Short of installing binary debs, can I do this?
Okay.
(1) Copy kdebase/debian/menu-method to /etc/menu-methods/kde
(2) Edit it to use the proper directory. Here's mine:
--- menu-method Tue Mar 31 07:46:39 1998
+++ /etc/menu-methods/kde Wed Feb 10 05:09:39 1999
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
endmenu=""
#submenutitle=""
rootsection=""
-rootprefix="/var/spool/kdeapplnk"
+rootprefix="/opt/kde/share/applnk/Debian"
userprefix="/Personal/Debian"
prerun="test -n \""prefix()"\" && rm -rf " prefix() "/* "
#treewalk="c()"
(3) The first time, run update-menus to generate Debian menus for KDE.
> How do debian users setup local printers? I see no front end like Redhat
> control panel or YasT. The /etc files are rather intimidating and I
> can't find the relevant documentation. (I have the Debian 2 official
> binary CD for 1386)
IIRC, I installed magicfilter and followed the instructions
(magicfilterconfig). It generated the appropriate entry for
/etc/printcap. I may have had to tweak this file manually.
> Does Debian 2.1 come with a Window Maker deb compiled with --enable-kde?
Probably not. Debian is lame.
-N.
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