[ale] Installing KDE

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Monday 24 March 2003 02:47 pm, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> Guys/Gals,
>
> I've *finally* got KDE 3.1.1 compiled.  I am now going to switch to it
> on my RH7.3 machine.  All the new stuff is loaded in /opt/kde?
>
> Here are my plans.
>
> 1) mv all /usr/bin/<kde type> binaries to a temp directory
> 2) Make symbolic links of everyting in /opt/kde/bin to /usr/bin/<file>
> 3) Pray it works.
>
> Is this a good plan of attack?
>
What I did was go to runlevel 3 and

1. in /etc/X11/xdm/kdmrc I put /opt/kde/bin in the PATH first.
2. added /opt/kde/lib to my /etc/ld.so.conf file
3. run ldconfig

restart runlevel 5 and it worked.

At the very least you need to add the libraries.

Michael
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