On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Tim King wrote:
> I assume "kde package for mandrake/redhat" means a binary RPM, which is
> how I prefer to install things (yes, I know about the advantages of
> compiling it yourself). However, the latest binary RPM for "kmysql"
> installed itself in /opt/kde... rather than in /usr and thus was not
> displayed in the menus. I would prefer to have KDE and all the apps
> separated in /opt/kde if there is any way to install this way.
There is - download the source RPMs, change /usr to /opt/kde in the .spec
file, rpm -ba the spec file, and install the resulting RPM.
There's no other way because the path names are hardcoded into the
binaries.
It's not a very good idea though IMO - since Mandrake 6.0 and Red Hat 6.0
put KDE in /usr, that's where future packages will put them. The only
distribution still putting KDE in /opt/kde by default is SuSE, and their
RPMs are incompatible with all other distributions anyways (older glibc).
LLaP
bero
