running application from $kdedir with multiple kde installs

[David Faure]

On Tuesday 26 October 2004 15:32, Anne-Marie Mahfouf wrote:
> On 26 October 2004 09:20, Jeroen Wijnhout wrote:
> > On Tuesday 26 October 2004 15:16, Diego Iastrubni wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I am running a debian box here, with kde installed from the distro. I
> > > also have another KDE self compiled and installed into /usr/local. I have
> > > a new script which sets the environment, and then calles
> > > $KDEDIR/bin/startkde. This script is called from GDM.
> >
> > It is not clear which variables you've set and how. Make sure you do:
> > export KDEDIR=/usr/local
> 
> Everybody (on IRC #kde-devel) tells me that KDEDIR is deprecated now. Is that 
> true? 

KDEDIRS overrides it (and allows setting multiple paths). KDEDIR still works, but
*only* if KDEDIRS isn't set. I'm sure this is on the wiki already... 

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