Excellent idea, just that I tried and it told me that it was impossible to relocate
/opt/kde to /usr. SRPMS is probably not an option since it won't let me uninstall
later, or does it?
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999 Tom Berger wrote:
>
> Manuel Amador Rudd-O wrote:
> >
> > Try installing it with the RPM, then moving everything from /opt/kde to /usr
> > IT worked for me although i can no longer uninstall the stuff, because RPM won't
>find the files again.
> >
> > Of course, that's a dumb solution. How can I mangle my RPMs so they install into
>/usr?
> >
> > On Tue, 24 Aug 1999 Tom Berger wrote:
> > >
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hello,
> > > > I tried to install several KDE apps from Red Hat RPMs. After
> > > > installing them I got strange behavior from them..missing bitmaps etc.
> > > >
> > > > I discovered that Mandrake doesn't use the /opt/kde directory as
> > > > KDE's home.
> > >
> > >
> > > Redhat does neither. In fact M has been changed the location of KDE from
> > > /opt/kde to /usr to *comply* with Redhat's silly opinions on where to put
> > > files.
> > > What apps are you referring to? Could you please do a
> > > rpm -ql [packagename]
> > > on a Redhat KDE package and have a look where the bitmaps should have been
> > > installed?
> > >
> > > Regards
> > >
> > > tom
> > >
> > >
> > > > Does Mandrake have somewhay of correctly installing KDE apps RPMs
> > > > >from RedHat? The RPM files would need to be altered somehow
> > > >
> > > > Neal Richter
> > >
> >
> >
>
> That depends :). Try
> rpm -i --test --relocate /opt/kde=/usr [packagename]
> This will do a test install in /usr (without actually changing anything)
> and tell you about any errors along the way. If that doesn't work, get the
> SRPMS of those packages and recompile them with the new path setting
> (./configure --prefix=/usr).
>
> Regards
>
> tom
>
>
