KDE 3.0 is out!

Peter Ruskin peter_ruskin
Mon May 17 11:29:34 PDT 2004


On Sunday 07 Apr 2002 07:42, Ted Ozolins wrote:
> On April 6, 2002 04:45 am, Keith Antoine wrote:
> > Yes I agree that seems to be what I am experiencing too. Also was
> > very suprised to see /opt/kde3 with mandrake, are they coming to
> > their senses?
>
> The more I work with Mandrake, the less I like it. I thought that
> "PATH=" was setup in profile. Yet the path I've set up in /etc/profile
> is not reported when I issue "echo $PATH" is Mandrake 8.2 any better?
> I've invested a lot of time recompiling and upgrading a lot of goodies
> on this box and would hate to dump it.

Yes, they screwed it up on 8.1 and AFAICT it's the same on 8.2.  The 
workaround is to repeat your PATH stuff from /etc/profile in your 
~/.bashrc, as I'm not sure when /etc/profile is sourced now.

-- 
Peter Ruskin, Wrexham, Wales.  AMD Athlon XP 1600+, 512MB RAM.
Registered Linux User 219434.  Mandrake Linux release 8.2 (Bluebird) 
Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk-win4lin,  XFree86 4.2.0, patch level 9mdk.
KDE: 2.2.2.  Qt: 2.3.1.  Up 2 days 15 hours 49 minutes.



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