Is it ok to do this?

M$ISBS · 07-09-2006, 12:55 PM

I downloaded KDE got it intstalled in /home/me/KDE3.5.3. The only way I can start it is by changing to that directory and doing startx. Can I modify xinitrc or some other file and make it point to that location? xwmconfig does not work neither does kdm.

drkstr · 07-09-2006, 01:44 PM

you can try this

Code:

echo "/home/me/KDE3.5.3/bin/startkde" > ~/.xinitrc

Then you should be able to run 'startx' from anywhere ...hopefully.

Let me know how it turns out!
...aaron

M$ISBS · 07-09-2006, 01:56 PM

I did that and now I get an error saying that the file startkde does not exist, but I know it does because thats how I start kde from the bin directory, by typing startx.

M$ISBS · 07-09-2006, 03:11 PM

I did this and this seems to have worked but it seems very differnt from other KDE systems I had.

in /home/me/.xinitrc I added the line: /home/me/kde3.5.3/./kdm

Thats the only way I could get kdm to startup.

is there a more Linux correct way of starting kdm, KDE in installed in my home directory.

dive · 07-09-2006, 05:02 PM

I'm sure in the readme there's reference to adding kde path to your path to get it to work. I installed kde the same way and it worked fine.

drkstr · 07-09-2006, 06:31 PM

Quote:

I'm sure in the readme there's reference to adding kde path to your path to get it to work. I installed kde the same way and it worked fine.

oops, forgot about the path. Good call dive.

Code:

echo "startkde" > ~/.xinitrc
export PATH=$PATH:/home/me/KDE3.5.3/bin/

You will also need to add the last line to your ~/.bash_profile if you want it to keep when you reboot.

regards,
...aaron

M$ISBS · 07-09-2006, 06:59 PM

I modified the rc.4 file to get kdm to start and I will do the path thingy also but the auto kde installer installed KDE to home now when I install any programs with PKGTOOL they get installed into /opt. Is there a way to fix that?

masonm · 07-09-2006, 07:56 PM

How did you install KDE? From the sound of it, I get the impression that you didn't use the Slackware packages.

M$ISBS · 07-09-2006, 08:00 PM

No, I used Konstruct the auto download, config, compile and install program from the KDE website.

masonm · 07-10-2006, 10:29 AM

Thought so. Whenever something is installed in a nonstandard location it's likely to cause problems. KDE should be installed in /opt not /home. Creating path entries will help, but you may continue to run into problems when trying to add additional KDE related apps at some point.

I try to use Slack's packages whenever possible and manually compile anything for which there isn't one. It really cuts down on problems like this. 3.5.3 is available in Slack current.

dugan · 07-10-2006, 11:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by M$ISBS

I downloaded KDE got it intstalled in /home/me/KDE3.5.3. Can I modify xinitrc or some other file and make it point to that location?

Yes you can. Just use a text editor. The format of the xinitrc file should be self-explanatory once you're looking at it.

M$ISBS · 07-10-2006, 08:56 PM

I prefer to use Slack packages also. I just tried to install some and they dont install into kde directory because it is in /home/me instead of /opt. Now I cant use them. Would it cause a big problem to simply copy or move the whole kde3.5.3 directory over to /opt or would all the PATH get messed up?
I only installed KDE this way because the slack packages would not work and compiling from source didnt work either