POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.unix : Cannot install for KDE : Re: Cannot install for KDE Server Time
2 May 2024 04:29:32 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Cannot install for KDE  
From: Cousin Ricky
Date: 18 Jan 2012 19:00:00
Message: <web.4f175c1648da0d5b85de7b680@news.povray.org>
Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
> In a terminal window, what do you get if you execute:
>
> echo $KDEHOME
>
> ?
>
> Just a guess, but it looks like POVRay may be trying to use that to
> determine the user's home directory.  (Not a KDE user myself so I don't
> know that that's what KDEHOME is supposed to be, but it seems a
> reasonable guess).
>
> Jim

It's blank.  I did find a directory .kde4 in my home directory, and I wonder if
it's supposed to be set to that.

As far as learning the innards of KDE, I'm not sure where to start.  There's so
much documentation and so little direction.


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