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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] KDE2/3 - KOffice problems (a bit more explanation)
From:       "Eugenia Loli-Queru" <eloli () hotmail ! com>
Date:       2002-04-08 9:30:28
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Thank you for your reply,
KDM is now working as advertised. :)

However, about the KOffice problem. I found what was wrong and I am not sure 
that there is a fix though...

So, the whole problem is because KDE 3 was installed prior to the KDE 
2-libs. You see, I installed Gentoo on Friday and when I emerged KDE, it 
emerged KDE 3 by default. When two days later I decided that I wanted 
KOffice (and this will be the case for a lot of Gentoo users), it emerged 
Office 1.1.1 and the KDE 2 libs that it needed in order KOffice to run.

HOWEVER, because the KDE 2 was installed afterwards, the /etc/profile.env 
was FIRST loading in its several KDE enviromental variables /usr/kde/3/bin 
and /lib and *then* the /usr/kde/2/bin etc etc
Because of this, it resulted KDE 3 to think that its user-home directory is 
the ~/.kde instead of the ~/.kde3 (which already existed btw before I 
installed KOffice with the KDE 2 libs). So, we got KDE 3 to overwrite KDE 
2's stuff under ~/.kde. Therefore, I couldn't run ANY of the KOffice 
applications!!

Now, what of course I did, was to edit the /etc/profile.env and put the 
variables in the right order. First load the KDE 2 paths, and then the KDE 3 
ones. Then, I had to DELETE my ~/.kde directory and THEN run the 
/usr/kde/2/kbuildsycoca script, which re-creates the MIME stuff under 
~/.kde. Now, I had KOffice running. However, the KDE 3 applications were 
going bezerk now. So, I had to reboot, so I could put things in a straight 
order and have the KDE 2  and KDE 3 apps to use the right dirs. HOWEVER, 
after I rebooted, the /etc/profile.env was REVERTED to its previous state, 
before I edited it. WHY is that?? This way, I can never run KOffice and KDE 
3 on the same time!!

Please find a fix for this, I bet a lot of gentoo users will get onto this 
problem.

Thank you,
Eugenia


> > Also, KOffice just DOES NOT work with Gentoo when KDE 3 is installed 
>prior
> > to KDE 2. I would highly appreciate if you have a fix for this:
> >
> > eugenia $ kspread
> > koffice (lib kofficecore): ERROR: Couldn't find the native MimeType in
> > kspread's desktop file. Check your installation !
> >
> > This happens for all the users, including root.
> > I tried to find info about the error on the net, and some people 
>suggested
> > to delete the ~/.kde dir or the ~/.kde/share/apps and then run the
> > 'kbuildsycoca' script to rebuild the MIME types. NO JOY. None of the 
>KOffice
> > 1.1.1 apps work. :(
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Eugenia
> >
> >                -----------------
> >     Editor-in-Chief at http://www.OSNews.com
> >     Email: eugenia@osnews.com - ICQ: 6070904
> >      Home page at http://www.eugenia.co.uk
> >
>
>




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    Email: eugenia@osnews.com - ICQ: 6070904
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