[Sussex] Upgrading to KDE 3.1

[Angelo Servini]

Hi Steve

<You wrote>
>
>If you can arrange for the KDE 3.1 stuff to be installed in
>/usr/local/kde-3.1.
>Debian will never touch any thing placed in /usr/local - that's policy.
>
>Once you have the new software installed then edit 
>/etc/ld.so.conf to list
>your new /usr/local/kde-3.1/lib directory first - that way any 
>programs that
>are dynamically linked to the 3.1 KDE libraries will see them 
>first.  If you
>haven't played with ld.so.conf before then the ldd is a useful command 
>to debug.  It lists the shared libraries a binary file 
>(program, library or
>object; anything in elf format I guess) and reports the 
>version that will be
>picked up.
>
>You'll also need to configure your path (either in /etc/profile or
>~/.profile)
>to pick up the /usr/local/kde-3.1/bin programs first.
>
>Hope this helps
>Steve
>

Ok, when I have this up and running. How do I set about removing the old
KDE? or is that not an option?

Thanks


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