Jack Coates wrote:
On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 02:47, James Conner wrote: ...
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
In this month's Linux Journal, there's an article about KDE's Desktop Sharing which makes it very clear what one needs to do to compile software for KDE on Mandrake. It agrees with your process. Perhaps Mosfet should consider a subscription?
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