running application from $kdedir with multiple kde installs

[Diego Iastrubni]

Michael Pyne wrote:

>On Tuesday 26 October 2004 06:33 pm, David Faure wrote:
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>>>when I run kword without the path, I see 1.3.2 in kword's about, when I
>>>run /usr/local/kde33/bin/kword i see "1.3post" in kword's about box
>>>(running koffice head with kdelibs branch)
>>>      
>>>
>>Then something is changing your PATH - what else can I say?
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h0w can I know what path is "kdesktop" seeing?

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>My .bashrc contains the following variable to remove the system KDE from the 
>PATH:
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>PATH=${PATH//\/usr\/kde\/[^:]*:}
>export PATH=${PATH//\/usr\/qt\/3[^:]*:}
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>This is some sort of bash-ism for applying a search-and-replace to the value 
>of the variable.  This one removes all /usr/kde/* and /usr/qt/3* type paths 
>from the PATH.  Maybe it'll work for you?
>  
>
will not help since kde is in /usr/bin