Putting Kde 3.4 on a externeal hardrive
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Can you be a little more specific? Do you just want to store the packages for KDE 3.4 on the drive, or install KDE 3.4 on a distro already installed on the drive?
What distro and version are you using?
What distro and version are you using?
(2nd attempt: Somehow pressed return and the form was gone; so if this post appears twice, I apologize in advance).
howdy cheetahman,
you can install KDE to wahtever directory you want. This also includes folders on external drives. Prerequisite is of course that you have a fixed mount point for the KDE dir on the external drive. I suggest a preocedure as follows ...
1) Install KDE to fixed hard disk
KDE will likely go into "/opt/kde" or somewhere underneath "/usr" (distro dependant) and see if everything is running smoothly.
2) Leave X and go to console (also make yourself "root") and copy the complete KDE folder to your external drive
(e.g. "mv /opt/kde /mnt/myexternaldrive_kde_dir")
3) Create a sym-link to the folder on your external drive
("ln -s /mnt/myexternaldrive_kde_dir /opt/kde")
DONE
This way the link redirects everything to the external harddrive and KDE still thinks it has set up camp in "/opt/kde"
You can also skip the symbolic link. In this case you would have to adjust the evironment vars "KDEDIR" and "LD_LIBRARY_PATH" to tell KDE where its home is.
hope this helps
howdy cheetahman,
you can install KDE to wahtever directory you want. This also includes folders on external drives. Prerequisite is of course that you have a fixed mount point for the KDE dir on the external drive. I suggest a preocedure as follows ...
1) Install KDE to fixed hard disk
KDE will likely go into "/opt/kde" or somewhere underneath "/usr" (distro dependant) and see if everything is running smoothly.
2) Leave X and go to console (also make yourself "root") and copy the complete KDE folder to your external drive
(e.g. "mv /opt/kde /mnt/myexternaldrive_kde_dir")
3) Create a sym-link to the folder on your external drive
("ln -s /mnt/myexternaldrive_kde_dir /opt/kde")
DONE
This way the link redirects everything to the external harddrive and KDE still thinks it has set up camp in "/opt/kde"
You can also skip the symbolic link. In this case you would have to adjust the evironment vars "KDEDIR" and "LD_LIBRARY_PATH" to tell KDE where its home is.
hope this helps
