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Monday, January 12th 2004, 3:46pm

KDE Themes Installation: Where do they go?

Hi! I'm trying to figure out how to install new themes on my Mandrake 9.2, KDE 3.1. I've tried to do everything right (untar, read README/INSTALL, make, make install, run Theme Manager), but somewhere it goes wrong; nothing new appears in Theme Manager. I can't even find the installed files anywhere (I've searched the whole HD for "KDE Theme files" with KFind). I read an earlier post suggesting to edit $KDEDIRS. It didn't work (it was empty at first, and the suggested options don't work. Havn't truied any dirs of my own because I have no idea what to write). Even an RPM-package failed to install. What do I need to do to install my themes properly?

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Monday, January 12th 2004, 6:50pm

KDEDIR

I'm not running Mandrake 9.1 so you may find this reply less helpful than you would hope, but is KDEDIR set at all? If I open konsole and type

[code:1]echo $KDEDIR[/code:1]

then I get

[code:1]/opt/kde[/code:1]

Does the installation stage fail with an error or does it look as if it installs the theme somewhere?

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Wednesday, January 14th 2004, 12:10pm

when i type [code:1]echo $KDEDIR[/code:1], I get nothing (it is blank). Two of the themes have actually been installed, but not in the way that I was informed that they would. So perhaps this wasn't as bad as it looked at first. However, my $KDEDIR variable seems to be empty, and I guess that it shouldn't be... or should it? However, two themes have been installed and used, but cannot be activated through Theme Manager. I'll try downloading a few more to see if it works...

Oh yeah, does anybody know where KDe is installed by default in MDK 9.2? Or if I could just get some ideas (I'm new to this Linux file system structure).

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Tuesday, January 27th 2004, 11:45pm

set KDEDIR=/usr for your mandrake machine. Then run the configure script with an option --prefix=$KDEDIR or --prefix=/usr and then proceed to "make" and "make install". BTW, am not a mandrake user so I may be wrong also :lol:

If you run configure without the prefix option, your binaries/libraries may be put in /usr/local/bin or /usr/local/lib etc., not looked for by kde control center/others. All the source packages will have a file called "INSTALL" which should tell you the details.

Regarding the rpm problem, are you sure those were rpms built for mandrake? If you tried a SuSE rpm instead, the files will be sent to /opt, instead of /usr.

Hope that helped...