Configuring the Core Trinity/KDE3 Packages

Back up your existing ~/.xinitrc file and create a new .xinitrc file to start Trinity/KDE3:

echo "exec startkde" > ~/.xinitrc

If you have D-BUS-1.4.16 installed, you can start the D-BUS session daemon here as well. Starting the session daemon here has the added bonus that it will exit when you log out of your Trinity/KDE3 session. If you wish to start the daemon here, use the following command instead of the one shown above:

echo "exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session startkde" >> ~/.xinitrc

If you installed the desktop-file-utils-0.18 package, ensure the XDG_DATA_DIRS and XDG_CONFIG_DIRS environment variables are configured properly as explained in that package and update the MIME-type application database (as root):

update-desktop-database

Ensure all libraries can be found with (as root):

ldconfig

At this point you can bring up Trinity/KDE3 with:

startx

Set the PATHs used for the installation in the login startup files. If you installed Trinity/KDE3 in the recommended versioned directory, /opt/trinity-3.5.13, create a generic symbiolic link as the root user:

ln -sf trinity-3.5.13 /opt/trinity

Now update the search path for dynamic libraries and update the cache. As the root user:

echo "/opt/trinity/lib" >> /etc/ld.so.conf &&
ldconfig

Set the paths. Thee are several ways to do this. You can edit /etc/profile, or ~/.bash_/profile to add the paths. If you used the recommended procedure in The Bash Shell Startup Files, run the following as the root user:

cat > /etc/profile.d/extrapaths.sh << "EOF"

pathprepend /opt/trinity/bin                   PATH
pathappend  /opt/trinity/share/man             MANPATH
pathappend  /opt/trinity/lib/pkgconfig         PKG_CONFIG_PATH
EOF

To set the paths immediately, run source /etc/profile.

Last updated on 2011-12-21 04:45:39 +0000