[Kwintv] How to install qtvision....

[Rizsanyi Zsolt]

On Friday 15 November 2002 08:13, Stefan Hellwig wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Friday 15 November 2002 04:19, kwintv-admin@mail.kde.org wrote:
> > Is the setup information on CVS page correct. I only adjusted the lines
> > where my kde3 and qt3 folders are located.
> > export KDEDIR = /usr/lib/kde3
> > export QTDIR =/usr/lib/qt3
> > those are the only directories in RedHat 8.0 where kde3 and qt3 exist....
>
> I really doubt that these settings for KDEDIR and QTDIR are correct. The
> problem is that RedHat is putting KDE directly into /usr (at least "older"
> versions and I believe the latest one does that as well). This means that
> for example the binaries for KDE on RedHat can be found in /usr/bin, mixed
> with all the other non-KDE applications...
>
> Other Linux distributions, like SuSE, put KDE into its own directory
> structure, for example /opt/kde3. This makes it much easier to set KDEDIR
> (KDEDIR is the top directory containing the KDE binaries, libs, etc.).
>
> Now, I don't know the exact settings for RedHat since I have not used it in
> years. Maybe you can't even solve this by setting just KDEDIR to the
> correct value and there is some other solution for this?! I guess I should
> make it clear that the script on www.kwintv.org to set KDEDIR etc. is just
> tested on SuSE and won't work for RedHat users?
>
> Try not to set any of those values before compiling, just do a ./configure
> and see if it detects the correct KDE/QT paths. Maybe do an "echo $KDEDIR"
> and "echo $QTDIR" before to see whether or not RedHat defines these by
> default.
>
> Good luck!
>
> Regards, Stefan.
>
> P.S.: Maybe someone with more RedHat experience can help out here?!

AFAIK RedHat automatically sets KDEDIR and QTDIR to the correct values, so 
dont change them (as suggested above).

Regards
Zsolt