kde 3.5.1 build

[Rick Sivernell]

On Tue, 07 Feb 2006 10:08:01 -0800
"Aaron Grewell" <AGrewell at uwb.edu> wrote:

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> > -----Original Message-----
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> > [mailto:linux-users-bounces at linux-sxs.org] On Behalf Of Rick Sivernell
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 7:42 AM
> > To: linux-users at linux-sxs.org
> > Subject: kde 3.5.1 build
> > 
> > 
> > Anyone have a script or something that will build the kde 
> > system 3.5.1?
> > I know they have a tool called konstruct, but it puts 
> > everything in the users directory. To me that is a bad idea.
> > 
> 
> 
> It depends.  The advantage of the way Konstruct does it is that it
> doesn't mess with whatever your distro does with KDE.  That might not
> matter so much with Slack and friends but if you're using rpm or deb you
> don't want it overwriting the distribution's built-in KDE with something
> you built from source.  That's just going to cause problems for your
> package manager, not to mention getting overwritten when you patch.  You
> could put it somewhere else (/usr/local, /opt) and if it's a multiuser
> machine that would probably be the best course.  I think Konstruct might
> even let you do that via command-line switches if you run it as root.
> Another option would be to wait until it finishes and cp the resulting
> folder to a more appropriate location.  As long as you set your
> environment variables properly that should work just fine.  I'd give
> Konstruct a run, I've used it before and had pretty good luck with it.
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Thanks Aaron
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Rick Sivernell
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