-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu 15 August 2002 4:13 am, Ben Reser wrote: > On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 07:24:39PM +0100, Alastair Scott wrote: > > KDE 3 binaries, compiled from scratch, are put in /usr/local/kde/bin. > > This directory isn't in the PATH which means that typing <name of > > binary>, without the path to it, from the command line fails ... > > And your point is? If you're installing things in a path that isn't > made by the distrubution and isn't part of the FHS then you should > expect to have to modify your PATH.
Well, some option, presumably set by Mandrakesoft, is telling KDE makefiles to put binaries there by default ... a side-effect of this is that typing the binary's name after Alt-F2 fails (in both KDE and Gnome). Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9X/w9dasIDb/2nMwRAhUtAJ9dEDVzQjw17fyLXzuJ/W5NYZtafgCcDNl7 4eDkkcGnhjyEM7PwEfWdm18= =aAWS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
