Montreal Thu Feb 18 17:21:22 1999 George Richard Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Navindra Umanee wrote: > > > Personally, I recommend that you don't use the .debs because you won't > > find debs for any of the many other KDE applications available. I > > think it is better that you keep KDE separate in /opt/kde or > > /usr/local/kde and use a program such as Smart Install to keep track > > of KDE packages. > > > > You might also steal /etc/menu-methods/kde from the .debs before you > > get rid of them (and edit it to use a proper directory). > > Could you expand on how to do this? I installed from the same source > tarballs as on Suse, and the configure script didn't detect it was being > installed on debian. So I have no debian menus in kpanel :-(
You probably need a configure option (--debian or --enable-debian or --with-debian?). Dunno. > Short of installing binary debs, can I do this? Okay. (1) Copy kdebase/debian/menu-method to /etc/menu-methods/kde (2) Edit it to use the proper directory. Here's mine: --- menu-method Tue Mar 31 07:46:39 1998 +++ /etc/menu-methods/kde Wed Feb 10 05:09:39 1999 @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ endmenu="" #submenutitle="" rootsection="" -rootprefix="/var/spool/kdeapplnk" +rootprefix="/opt/kde/share/applnk/Debian" userprefix="/Personal/Debian" prerun="test -n \""prefix()"\" && rm -rf " prefix() "/* " #treewalk="c()" (3) The first time, run update-menus to generate Debian menus for KDE. > How do debian users setup local printers? I see no front end like Redhat > control panel or YasT. The /etc files are rather intimidating and I > can't find the relevant documentation. (I have the Debian 2 official > binary CD for 1386) IIRC, I installed magicfilter and followed the instructions (magicfilterconfig). It generated the appropriate entry for /etc/printcap. I may have had to tweak this file manually. > Does Debian 2.1 come with a Window Maker deb compiled with --enable-kde? Probably not. Debian is lame. -N.