Trying to run amarok outside of /usr

[Colin Guthrie]

Christian Engels wrote:
> Hiho
> I have kind of a weird setup:
> mounted /usr over unionfs in home, changed PATH to the usr in home and did 
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the library in home.
> I installed the svn in this fake usr (using --prefix) and now i try to start 
> it but amarok complains about not finding engines and advises me to use the 
> kde prefix.
> 
> Does somebody know how to fix this and why this is happening?
> I don't want to overwrite my stable amarok with the svn version but also test 
> the svn version.

Try setting KDEDIRS=/my/prefix:/usr then run kbuildsycoca before running
amarok.

HTH

Col