--- Alastair Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----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).
Chances are the app is insisting on that path. If it was really listening to what the installed system tells it, it'd be wanting to install under /usr __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com
