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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Installation issues
From:       Stephan Kulow <coolo () itm ! mu-luebeck ! de>
Date:       1999-12-19 18:00:41
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David Faure wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Dec 19, 1999 at 09:36:49AM +0100, Matt Koss wrote:
> >
> > I just got a question from one Caitoo want-to-be user about installation.
> > I realized that I don't know how to help him, and that's why I want to ask
> > KDE people.
> >
> > He wants to install Caitoo but he doesn't have permissions for the installation
> > into the main KDE tree.
> > Can he keep using the main KDE tree and install Caitoo into his local
> > directory ?
> > How should he then set KDEDIR ?
> 
> This is the exact case where $KDEDIRS cames in.
> Not sure it will perfectly work, but he'll make a good tester for it :-)
> 
> He can install caitoo in his local directory, and set KDEDIRS
> to contain both prefixes (local and global, but I don't know what
> the order should be. Probably global first).
> 
Doesn't mater. caitoo shouldn't have files in global anyway :)

The problem is he needs that KDEDIRS for all of KDE, not just for
caitoo,
so he needs to restart KDE to see it in kpanel.

Greetings, Stephan

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