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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: No KDE on student labs (installation problem)
From:       Carsten Pfeiffer <carpdjih () cetus ! zrz ! tu-berlin ! de>
Date:       2001-10-07 11:54:43
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On Sonntag, 7. Oktober 2001 13:39 Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> There is a problem with the way KDE handles installation directories,
> making it a bad fit for student labs.  It only handle two config
> directories $prefix and $HOME/.kde/, and only one install directory
> $prefix.

No.

> I want to install the KDE base system in one directory tree, the KDE
> addons in a different directory, and allow the students to install
> their own addons in their home directory.  As far as I know, this is
> impossible with the current KDE libraries.  Example:
>
>   KDE base systen		/usr/
>   KDE extras (site spesific)	/store/opt/kde/
>   KDE extras (user spesific)	$HOME/kde/
>
> The menu and config entires must be read from all directories.  How do
> I do this with KDE?

Set the environment variable KDEDIRS similar to the path variable, with : 
delimited paths where you want KDE to look for icons, configfiles, etc.

Cheers
Carsten Pfeiffer
 
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