[kde-linux] Installing KDE in Home Directory

[Kevin Krammer]

On Saturday 26 May 2007, O. Olson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using CentOS 4.4. Is there a way to install KDE
> into my home directory - without having the root
> privileges? I have a virtually unlimited disk space -
> but I cannot get the root on this machine (where I
> work).

Yes, this should work pretty nicely.
You need to make sure that whatever you compile, you pass the
--prefix
option to configure, for examle

./configure --prefix /home/username/kdeinstall

Then, for running it, you need to make sure a couple of environment variables 
are set correctly

PATH needs to point to prefix/bin
LD_LIBRARY_PATH needs to point to prefix/lib

KDEDIRS needs to point to prefix

Cheers,
Kevin
-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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