Moving temp KDE3.2 build to permanent location

[Job 317]

Very helpful. Thanks, James.

JOB

On  9-Mar-2004 22:54:38 +0100, you wrote:
> Job 317 wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> No, some of the old stuff will be older versions of libraries.  This 
> probably wouldn't matter if you uninstall of the 'devel' packages. 
But, it 
> can cause problems to have old stuff still on your system.
> > 
> > Also, How? Just 'rpm -e kde*' ?
> 
> You can do that, but you need to use the option: "--allmatches":
> 
> 	rpm -e kde* --allmatches
> 
> This is considered somewhat risky.  You can also get a list of the
packages 
> with:
> 
> 	rpm -qa |grep kde
> 
> and uninstall them individually with: "--nodeps".
> 
> --
> JRT
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