can't install kdebase, needs root

[Michael Jansen]

On Samstag 12 Juni 2010 00:49:56 Ben Cooksley wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Matthew Woehlke
> 
> <mw_triad at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> > I've started getting this the last two days:
> > 
> > CMake Error at
> > workspace/plasma/generic/scriptengines/python/cmake_install.cmake:76
> > (FILE): file cannot create directory:
> > /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/PyKDE4. Maybe need administrative
> > privileges.
> > 
> > The line in question (trying to install to ${PYTHON_SITE_PACKAGES_DIR})
> > seems to have been there for some time, so I am not sure what has
> > changed (I think, though, PyKDE was not being built before on my system,
> > though again, I don't know why that would have changed).
> 
> Passing the following argument to CMake when configuring kdebase
> should be sufficient..
> 
> -DPYTHON_SITE_PACKAGES_DIR=$KDEDIR/lib/python2.6/site-packages

OR -DPYTHON_LIBS_WITH_KDE_LIBS=True

Which is defined in FindPythonLibrary.cmake (kdelibs/cmake/modules) and makes sure everything is 
installed into PREFIX according to the used python version. But is hard to find because it is not 
documented and cached in CMakeCache.txt.

Mike