Trinity/KDE3 Pre-installation Configuration

Based on your preference, set TRINITY_PREFIX.

One option is to put Trinity/KDE3 into the /usr hierarchy. This creates a simpler setup but is more difficult to try multiple versions of Trinity/KDE3.

export TRINITY_PREFIX=/usr

The Trinty developers and BLFS editors recommend installing Trinity in the /opt directory in order to support using one version while building another.

export TRINITY_PREFIX=/opt/trinity-3.5.13

Using this option requires updates to the PATH, PKG_CONFIG_PATH, and library search path:

The instructions for making these changes permanent are in the section called “Configuring the Core Trinity/KDE3 Packages”.

There are two other environment variables that need to be set to build Trinity/KDE3. These are needed for all the cmake based packages:

export CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/opt/qt:$TRINITY_PREFIX         &&

CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH=/opt/qt/include:/usr/include/dbus-1.0 &&
export CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH=$CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH:$TRINITY_PREFIX/include

You should also consider installing the desktop-file-utils-0.18 package. Though not required, this package will allow you to easily use existing .desktop files in /usr/share/applications (and any other locations identified by XDG_DATA_DIRS), and automatically add these applications to the menu system.

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