On Tuesday 11 March 2003 11:47, James Conner wrote: > I'd been using Mofset's Liquid style on KDE 3.0.5a on MDK 9.0 for quite a > while. I wanted to upgrade to KDE 3.1, but didn't want to lose Liquid. I > installed KDE 3.1 from here: > ftp://mandrake.redbox.cz/Mandrake-addon/KDE 3.1 MDK 9.0/rpms > First I had to download all files into a subdirectory and run: > rpm -Uvh --test *.rpm > It told me what I had to do to get it installed. I had to delete a couple > of files, grab kdetoys from texstar's site and install htdig from the 9.0 > cdrom. After it passed the testing phase, I logged out of kde and into > blackbox(you can use anything but kde) and installed it. I logged back > into KDE 3.1 and it worked fine, just some minor tweaks. > Now I had to get Mofset's Liquid. I looked for an updated rpm and it > didn't exist, so I went to his web site to get the tarball. He claims on > his web site( http://www.mosfet.org/liquid.html ) that "Mandrake uses a > non-standard directory structure that breaks KDE software installation when > compiling from source. Specifically, it uses a non-standard directory for > the configuration files that control what shows up in the KDE Control > Center, in the menus, and mimetypes. " Well, not to be detered, I > installed it anyway. It didn't work. I did some digging and found it > installed it in /opt/kde instead of /usr. I uninstalled it and did the > following: > make distclean > ./configure --prefix=/usr > make > make install > It showed up in the Control Center and worked fine. I sent Mofset an > e-mail stating my success and how I did it. He replied that before he > changes his web site to reflect this, he needs to make sure it's not an > isolated case. So my question is has anyone done this and had any success? > If not, is anyone here willing to try this and report on its success or > failure? > > Jim
It is simply wrong that Mandrake breaks kde, its a lie . full stop. The only thing that mandrake changes is the location of the menus, since it uses debian-style menu-entries as far as I know. But so debian would break kde too. -- Regards Steffen ____________________ counter.li.org : #296567. machine: 181800 vdr-box : 87 ____________________ Please dont CC me, since if I have replied I'll watch the tread. Both mails will be filtered to the ML-folder. Thanks
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