installation problem over RedHat 6.0

[vegar-b]

Haakon Nilsen wrote:

> At 12:38 22.06.99 -0700, you wrote:
> >It is possible to get kdevelop running on RH6. I posted here with some
> >problems recently, but it now works fine. I wouldn't bother with the rpm
>
> The RPM works great with RH6/Mandrake6. The only problem is that it tries
> to install in /opt/kde, which doesn't exist. I created /opt/kde, and made
> all subdirectories from there symlinks to the equivalent /usr directories
> (e.g. /opt/kde/bin -> /usr/bin, /opt/kde/share -> /usr/share...). Then I
> installed the RPM. Works wonderfully.
>
> When trying to compile from source, I had the problems with
> libgif/libjpeg/libpng and whatnot...

If you absolutly must use the rpm package that is compiled for rh5.x under
rh6.0 just type rpm -Uvh
--relocate /opt/kde=/usr kdevel*.rpm.
Personaly I recomend getting the source and do ./configure make make
install...........

VB