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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4.1.3 + KDE-3.5.9 = messed up KDEDIRS ?
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:38:38
Message-Id: 200811122130.03823.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] KDE-4.1.3 + KDE-3.5.9 = messed up KDEDIRS ? by "Dmitry S. Makovey"
1 On Wednesday 12 November 2008 18:31:41 Dmitry S. Makovey wrote:
2 > Hi everybody,
3 >
4 > I've just updated to 4.1.3 (slotted alongside with 3.5.9) and all of sudden
5 > konqueror and akregator (didn't test much more, but I'm sure something else
6 > was broke too) stopped launching hinting that there is a CSS version
7 > mistmatch blah-blah-blah. Path to CSS suggested that 4.1.3 was using CSS
8 > from 3.5.9 which was bizzare since it was working before.
9 >
10 > so I checked my KDEDIRS environment variable and found out that kde-3.5 was
11 > listed there (no traces of kde-4.1) and to work around it I just applied
12 > little script that rewrites KDEDIRS to something more usefull (?) placing
13 > it under ~/.kde-4.1/env/kde4-kdedirs.sh:
14 >
15 > #!/bin/sh
16 > export KDEDIRS=/usr:/usr/local
17 >
18 > and this fixed it. Now my question is: is it something about my setup or
19 > it's happening to others too? Is there a "more proper" way to fix it?
20
21 I had something similar on my first try:
22
23 kde-4 went into /usr
24 kde-3 went into /usr/kde/3.5
25
26 And bizarre weird errors kept happening. I remerged all of kde-4 with
27 USE="kdeprefix" to put it back into /usr/kde/4.1 and all the weirdness went
28 away
29
30 --
31 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Replies

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Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4.1.3 + KDE-3.5.9 = messed up KDEDIRS ? Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de>
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4.1.3 + KDE-3.5.9 = messed up KDEDIRS ? "Dmitry S. Makovey" <dmitry@××××××××××.ca>