Hi, I was just trying out the Debian packages of KDE3. The main reason for this is that I wanted to try the game "Boson", which seems to require KDE3. (Boson people: this is a Debian issue, but I'm Bccing you in case you get other reports of this)
The apt source line I used was: deb http://download.us.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/latest/Debian/sid ./ After getting boson compiled and installed, I tried running it, and got a message that the data was not installed. I checked in /usr/local/share/apps/boson, and it was right where it should have been. However, running the program again merely produced further insistance that these files did not exist. I straced boson, and discovered this (when it was attempting to find and open an initial data file): access("/home/daniel/.kde/share/apps/boson/pics/boson-startup-bg.png", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) access("/usr/share/apps/boson/pics/boson-startup-bg.png", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) Of course those files don't exist since I installed it in /usr/local. This appears to be some sort of problem with the KDE settings: the search is performed from what appears to be a library function, "locate", and this function doesn't search in /usr/local for data files. Presumably there's a setting in the KDE libraries that could get it to behave properly. I tried modifying /etc/kderc, but it seems to be ignored, or maybe my guess at what should be in this (entirely undocumented) file was wrong. After poking around a bit more, I tried setting KDEDIRS to /usr/local, and the program ran. This probably should be fixed in the packages (preferably before you release them to unstable, or at least a bit afterwards) Cheers, Daniel -- /-------------------- Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -------------------\ | Somewhere, just out of sight, the unicorns are gathering. | \------- (if (not (understand-this)) (go-to http://www.schemers.org)) --------/
