Moving temp KDE3.2 build to permanent location

[Job 317]

On  8-Mar-2004 02:24:31 +0100, you wrote:
> Job 317 wrote:
> > Alles,
> > 
> > I am very pleased with KDE3.2 on ReHat 9 and would like to move
it's
> > location to a permanent location on my system.
> > 
> > Currently it resides in /root/kde3.2 and I have updated my .bashrc
with
> > the environment variables pointing to this location as directed in
the
> > 3.2 documentation.
> > 
> > Rather than go through a complete rebuild can I simply move
everything
> > over and replace my system's KDE 3.1.4 install? I really hate
wasting
> > the space on my HD even though I seem to have plenty. Plus I don't
> > intend to use the 3.1.4 stuff anymore anyway.
> 
> No, you can't just move the stuff.  You need to reconfigure your
source 
> tree with the prefix you want (either "/usr" or "/usr/kde3" would be 
> appropriate on a RedHat system) and rebuild and reinstall..
> 

O.K. I'm using konstruct. Is that o.k.?


> However, this will not recompile anything, it will just relink for the
new 
> prefix and it won't take nearly as long.
> 
> Also, you will probably want to uninstall 3.1.4 first.

O.K. Why? As long as I don't rely on any future rpm updates (RH9 support
is ending soon anyway) won't the new build/configuration just wrote over
the old stuff?

Also, How? Just 'rpm -e kde*' ?

JOB

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