Daniel Stone writes: Daniel> On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 08:09:11PM +0100, David Pye wrote: >> While perhaps related to debian, and packaging, I'd like to add >> that third party KDE-based apps also seem unable to locate other >> files, such as .ui files, which locate themselves in >> /usr/local/kde/share/apps/<appname>. >> >> Even though compiled locally, the apps themselves can't then find >> these files. I had to move these to my own >> ~/.kde/share/apps/<appname> as the other one doesn't appear to be >> searched properly. >> >> (JuK, for those interested, is broken if compiled on Debian with >> these packages, and segfaults when trying to play ANYTHING, until >> I fixed it as described above)
Daniel> *sigh*, this isn't anything to do with the packages. export Daniel> KDEDIRS=/usr:/usr/local. KDE has no clue that you've Daniel> installed JuK to /usr/local, so you're going to have to tell Daniel> it, if you decide to split your KDE installation over two Daniel> prefixes. Hmm.. rereading your email, why can't the packages just set KDEDIRS ( or the corresponding option ) to "/usr/:/usr/local:/usr/local/kde", so that users won't have to deal with problems like the above ? cheers domi -- Your depth of comprehension may tend to make you lax in worldly ways.