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Thank you for your reply, |
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KDM is now working as advertised. :) |
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However, about the KOffice problem. I found what was wrong and I am not sure |
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that there is a fix though... |
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So, the whole problem is because KDE 3 was installed prior to the KDE |
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2-libs. You see, I installed Gentoo on Friday and when I emerged KDE, it |
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emerged KDE 3 by default. When two days later I decided that I wanted |
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KOffice (and this will be the case for a lot of Gentoo users), it emerged |
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Office 1.1.1 and the KDE 2 libs that it needed in order KOffice to run. |
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HOWEVER, because the KDE 2 was installed afterwards, the /etc/profile.env |
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was FIRST loading in its several KDE enviromental variables /usr/kde/3/bin |
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and /lib and *then* the /usr/kde/2/bin etc etc |
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Because of this, it resulted KDE 3 to think that its user-home directory is |
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the ~/.kde instead of the ~/.kde3 (which already existed btw before I |
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installed KOffice with the KDE 2 libs). So, we got KDE 3 to overwrite KDE |
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2's stuff under ~/.kde. Therefore, I couldn't run ANY of the KOffice |
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applications!! |
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Now, what of course I did, was to edit the /etc/profile.env and put the |
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variables in the right order. First load the KDE 2 paths, and then the KDE 3 |
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ones. Then, I had to DELETE my ~/.kde directory and THEN run the |
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/usr/kde/2/kbuildsycoca script, which re-creates the MIME stuff under |
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~/.kde. Now, I had KOffice running. However, the KDE 3 applications were |
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going bezerk now. So, I had to reboot, so I could put things in a straight |
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order and have the KDE 2 and KDE 3 apps to use the right dirs. HOWEVER, |
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after I rebooted, the /etc/profile.env was REVERTED to its previous state, |
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before I edited it. WHY is that?? This way, I can never run KOffice and KDE |
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3 on the same time!! |
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Please find a fix for this, I bet a lot of gentoo users will get onto this |
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problem. |
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Thank you, |
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Eugenia |
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> > Also, KOffice just DOES NOT work with Gentoo when KDE 3 is installed |
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>prior |
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> > to KDE 2. I would highly appreciate if you have a fix for this: |
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> > eugenia $ kspread |
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> > koffice (lib kofficecore): ERROR: Couldn't find the native MimeType in |
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> > kspread's desktop file. Check your installation ! |
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> > This happens for all the users, including root. |
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> > I tried to find info about the error on the net, and some people |
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>suggested |
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> > to delete the ~/.kde dir or the ~/.kde/share/apps and then run the |
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> > 'kbuildsycoca' script to rebuild the MIME types. NO JOY. None of the |
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>KOffice |
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> > 1.1.1 apps work. :( |
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> > Thank you, |
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> > Eugenia |
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> > Editor-in-Chief at http://www.OSNews.com |
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> > Email: eugenia@××××××.com - ICQ: 6070904 |
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> > Home page at http://www.eugenia.co.uk |
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Email: eugenia@××××××.com - ICQ: 6070904 |
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