Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-programming (32 mails)

[Jeroen Wijnhout <wijnhout@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 04 December 2004 14:37, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 10:20:50 -0700
>
> Mike Adolf <mlnx@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I am a C++ programmer (formerly on Windows) and have started using
> > Kdevelop/Qt.  I did the simple "hello world" sample.  All worked as
> > expected until the install step when Kdevelop wanted to install files
> > in several directories starting at /usr/local/kde...  All are owned by
> > root.  The only way I was able to install was to run Build/Install as
> > root.  It is very inconvenient to supply a root password everytime you
> > want to run your program.  I looked in the Kdevelop config window but
> > did not see a way to alter this, but there must be a way to use
> > Kdevelop as a user without evoking root?
>
> You should install to something like $HOME/bin which is a directory that
> you own.

Won't work flawlessly. You should install in $HOME/.kde, that works like a 
charm. Actually to be precise, install in
kde-config --localprefix

best,
Jeroen