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Re: [opensuse] KDE 4 in parallel to KDE 3 on openSUSE 10.2, possible?
- From: Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2007 19:03:18 -0700
- Message-id: <200706021903.18348.rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>
On Saturday 02 June 2007 16:43, Mohammad Bhuyan wrote:
> > "The KDE4 packages install into the /usr prefix hence KDE3 and KDE4
> > can be installed at the same time."
>
> what does it mean by "/usr prefix"?
All the files it installs reside in a subdirectory of the /usr
directory. In KDE version 3.x, all the files were in a subdirectory
of /opt. Thus the two can coexist on a single system without
interfering with each other.
> -- Soyuz
Randall Schulz
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> > "The KDE4 packages install into the /usr prefix hence KDE3 and KDE4
> > can be installed at the same time."
>
> what does it mean by "/usr prefix"?
All the files it installs reside in a subdirectory of the /usr
directory. In KDE version 3.x, all the files were in a subdirectory
of /opt. Thus the two can coexist on a single system without
interfering with each other.
> -- Soyuz
Randall Schulz
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