.tar.gz in Knoppix

Brian Kelsay bkelsay at comcast.net
Fri May 21 04:34:55 CDT 2004


Richard A. Franklin wrote:

> 
> The last link you included gives this instruction:
> 
> 
> "add the KDEDIR environment variable, you need to edit your /etc/profile 
> ( or ~/.bash_profile ) and add the line:
> 
> 
> export KDEDIR="/usr"
> 
> 
> ...where /usr is your KDE's base directory.
> 
> 
> Now, change the present working directory to the location where you 
> unarchived Knights and type the following:
> 
> % ./configure
> % make
> % make install"
> 
> This sounds easy enough, but I have no experience with editing (I am a 
> candidate for Jason's Communiversity class).
> 
> Any advice on a newbie-friendly tutorial on the subject?
> 
> Rick
> 
> 
> 
You can edit the file w/ kwrite from w/in KDE.  Did you get your 
permissions problem fixed?  you may need to login as root to get some of 
this accomplished or use sudo or su from the cmdline.

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