<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">--- On <b>Fri, 6/17/11, Joe <i><josephj@main.nc.us></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Joe <josephj@main.nc.us><br>Subject: Re: [KPhotoAlbum] KPhotoAlbum Crashes when viewing thumbnails<br>To: "Murray Strome" <wmstrome@yahoo.com><br>Received: Friday, June 17, 2011, 12:25 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail">I'm going to try this soon, so I can't address your final error.<br><br>Usually, /opt should remain owned by root.<br>What Mike did (and may not have mentioned on list) is that he manually <br>created /opt/kpa as root and then changed it's ownership to his user. <br>That way he was exposing only /opt/kpa and not all of /opt. If you are <br>on a single user system, this distinction probably isn't too important, <br>but it could lead to unintended
security vulnerabilities or other <br>permission problems depending on what else you install in /opt.<br><br></div></blockquote>Thanks for the hint. I changed the ownership of /opt/kpa to myself as user and ran the script again. It worked fine. It now shows I am running
"KPhotoAlbum Version GIT Using KDE Development Platform 4.6.2 (4.6.2)". Time only will tell if the problem still arises. I can now run it from a terminal by typing:<br>/opt/kpa/kphotoalbum/kphotoalbum &<br><br>Once I remember how to do it, I will be able to put it into my Applications launcher<br><div class="plainMail"><br></div><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><div class="plainMail">Also, if you're not on a 64 bit system, take a look at the script's <br>setting for KDE4_DIR. I had to change it as follows because I don't <br>have a lib64 subdirectory. (The # turns the rest of any line into a <br>comment in bash.)<br><br>##jjp KDE4_DIR=/usr/lib64/kde4<br>KDE4_DIR=/usr/lib/kde4<br></div></blockquote>I am running a 64 bit system, so I did not have to worry about the above step.<br><div class="plainMail"><br></div><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255);
margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><div class="plainMail">HTH<br><br>Joe<br><br></div></blockquote>Thanks to all for you help. I guess I just keep using this version now until the repository catches up to this version or later , assuming my problem does not reappear in the meantime.<br><br>How will I be able to tell when the repository has a stable version that has the fixes that are in the GIT version I am now running?<br><br>Murray<br><div class="plainMail"><br></div></td></tr></table>