[PyKDE] sips installation problem ...

[Doug Bell]

Jim Bublitz wrote:
> On Friday February 13 2004 07:05, hcohen2 wrote:
> > Jim Bublitz wrote:
> > >Looks like you need to do:
> 
> > >export QTDIR=<base Qt directory>
> 
> > >On SuSE <base Qt directory> is /usr/lib/qt3 - should be
> > > something similar on other distributions.
> 
> > You got that correct-it's the same on Mandrake 9.1, that I am
> > running
> 
> > >You can just 'echo $QTDIR' to see what or if the environment
> > >variable is set - probably isn't.
> 
> > It is worse than than - nothing!  I cannot find any of my '.'
> > files in my home directory where I would put the export
> > command.  Unlike UNIX, I am a loss as to were I should look
> > for the configuration files.  This thing is set to boot into X
> > and seems to have hidden the configurations elsewhere.  Could
> > I bother you to make a guess where I should search. My regular
> > expressions searching for the these dot files does not seem to
> > be working, even after I try to eliminate and alphanumerics
> > preceeding the dot.
> 
> I'm not familiar with where Mandrake puts config files if not in 
> your home directory - if you're using konqueror, there's an 
> option for making dot files visible (View | Show Hidden Files), 
> but if they're really not there, I don't have a suggestion.  
> Does someone else on the list know?

I run Mandrake - you should have a normal set of dot config files in
your home directory.  I set $QTDIR in ~/.bash_profile

You can also use the command:

   $ ls -a

from your home directory on a terminal window to see the files.

Doug.