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Friday, January 23rd 2004, 11:52pm

newbie in need of help to install theme/style

hi, i'm new to linux/kde. i'm trying to install a theme/style called plastik but i can't seem to get it to work. i typed the commands in knosole:
./configure --prefix=/usr
but all i got was an error message saying the file/directory was not found.
i replaced usr with my login name but got the same error.
my theme .tar.gz is saved on my desktop, btw if that means anything.

i also tried the command in the install file in the theme .tar.gz file:
./configure --prefix=PREFIX (where PREFIX is the kde directory) but also the same error message. i typed:
/home/(login name)/.kde/share/applnk/Configuration/KDE

please help. :( :x :evil:

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Saturday, January 24th 2004, 3:19am

ok i got plastik partially installed, i think.
i typed "./configure" at where the extracted plastik folder is, then
typed "make,"
but right after i typed "make install," it gave me a whole bunch of error messages like "nothing to be done for install-exec-am," "cannot create regular file," " [install-recursive error]," etc.
i then typed: "./configure --prefix=/usr," and it processed something.

in the kde config window, i saw plastik in the tree view, but when i expanded that and clicked on plastik, it didn't do anything.
i think maybe that plastik wasn't installed and what i did earlier with "./configure and make" was just creating the option in the kde config window.
well "make install" still gives me error messages. any ideas. thanks.

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Saturday, January 24th 2004, 3:45am

it seems that in order for "make install" to work, i have to change the $ to # as stated in the install readme. I'm the only user and i should have admin priviledges. so how can i change the $ to a #? reply reply. :(

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Saturday, January 24th 2004, 4:06am

First find out where your KDE is installed:
bash-2.05a$ which konsole
opt/kde-3.1/bin/konsole (mine is under /opt/kde-3.1, yours is probably somewhere else)
Then ./configure --prefix=<path-to-kde> (in my case it would be --prefix=/opt/kde-3.1)
If configure doesn't report any errors you can do make.
To install your theme system wide you have to become root:
bash-2.05a$ su
Password:<your-root-pwd> (mine is... heh, I am not going to tell you all my root pwd :))
Now you can do make install, and voila! Plastik should be right there in the control center.

edit:
Don't forget to exit from the root account after doing make install or you might brake up your system really bad...
bash-2.05a# exit
exit
bash-2.05a$
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