Two dbus on the same system

[Laurent Montel]

On Friday 23 June 2006 11:22, Andras Mantia wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  Are DBUS versions BIC? I have a fairy recent distribution (SUSE 10.1),
> which uses DBUS 0.60. KDE4 requires 0.62, so I simply installed it over
> the system provided DBUS. The result is that after the first restart
> (my wife forgot how to suspend to disk ;-)) lot of things started to
> not work. For example the powersave deamon said something like
> "ERROR (MainLoop:61) Error setting up connection to DBus system bus.
> Aborting..."
>
> Installing the system DBUS was a small challenge as well, as
> automounting of DVDs did not work anymore (=YaST unusable to install
> software), so I had to manually update the packages.
>
> This was a hint that the problem is with DBUS. Now the question is how
> can I develop and use KDE4 without messing up my system?

Hi,
Install new dbus into own directory.
I am dbus install on my system (/usr/...) and dbus-0.62 into own 
directory /opt/new-dbus/ (for example)

Regards

> Andras