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PATH in KDE

wfosborn

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Sunday, October 28th 2007, 7:10pm

PATH in KDE

Hello,

Maybe this is something obvious, but it has me stuck. How do I get KDE to use the same PATH as my environment variable? When I put a newer version of a program in /usr/local/bin, KDE still wants to run the old version even though in my PATH /usr/local/bin comes first.

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Wednesday, October 31st 2007, 2:59pm

RE: PATH in KDE

this is normally a shell issue i think, not a KDE specific one.

try to run ldconfig, and/or start a new shell or new tab in konsole

normally, the latter ALWAYS works for me

(PS: Btw even though off-topic, this is one reason why using Gobolinux like file-layout would be an advantage, since you could just re-symlink to the version you want to use, instead of using only /usr vs /usr/local)

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Wednesday, October 31st 2007, 7:33pm

Still doesn't seem to have any effect. In a shell if I do a whereis firefox it's using the /usr/local/firefox but when KDE calls firefox it finds /usr/firefox.

And on a side note, as I install my own programs I do use a Gobolinux-type hierarchy for a lot of them. Don't suppose that could be causing the problem since /usr/local/firefox is a symlink to the actual program?