On 8-Mar-2004 02:24:31 +0100, you wrote: > Job 317 wrote: > > Alles, > > > > I am very pleased with KDE3.2 on ReHat 9 and would like to move it's > > location to a permanent location on my system. > > > > Currently it resides in /root/kde3.2 and I have updated my .bashrc with > > the environment variables pointing to this location as directed in the > > 3.2 documentation. > > > > Rather than go through a complete rebuild can I simply move everything > > over and replace my system's KDE 3.1.4 install? I really hate wasting > > the space on my HD even though I seem to have plenty. Plus I don't > > intend to use the 3.1.4 stuff anymore anyway. > > No, you can't just move the stuff. You need to reconfigure your source > tree with the prefix you want (either "/usr" or "/usr/kde3" would be > appropriate on a RedHat system) and rebuild and reinstall.. > O.K. I'm using konstruct. Is that o.k.? > However, this will not recompile anything, it will just relink for the new > prefix and it won't take nearly as long. > > Also, you will probably want to uninstall 3.1.4 first. O.K. Why? As long as I don't rely on any future rpm updates (RH9 support is ending soon anyway) won't the new build/configuration just wrote over the old stuff? Also, How? Just 'rpm -e kde*' ? JOB > > -- > JRT > ___________________________________________________ > . > Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. > Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. > More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html. >
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