On Monday 11 November 2002 02:03, Daniel Burrows wrote: > This appears to be some sort of problem with the KDE settings: the > search is performed from what appears to be a library function, > "locate", and this function doesn't search in /usr/local for data > files.
It searches in KDEDIRS (plural, see below) and ~/.kde > Presumably there's a setting in the KDE libraries that could get it > to behave properly. I tried modifying /etc/kderc, but it seems to be > ignored, or maybe my guess at what should be in this (entirely > undocumented) file was wrong. After poking around a bit more, I > tried setting KDEDIRS to /usr/local, and the program ran. > > This probably should be fixed in the packages (preferably before > you release them to unstable, or at least a bit afterwards) No, the packages are fine, as far as I can tell. Just set KDEDIRS appropriately. I have the following line in /etc/environment KDEDIRS=/usr:/usr/local/kde:/usr/local Michael -- Michael Schuerig If at first you don't succeed... mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] try, try again. http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ --Jerome Morrow, "Gattaca"