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Re: [trinity-users] Running kpdf without trinity (and no admin privileges)

From: Nicolas Bercher <nbercher@...>
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 14:53:00 +0100
Up!  I'm not in a hurry but this topic is still interesting to me.
I'm not in a position to say whether it is possible to run kpdf this
way or not.  Maybe, at least, someone here could ask this question.

Thanks a lot.
Nicolas

On 19/03/2012 12:06, Nicolas Bercher wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to run trinity parts, at least kpdf, on a machine where I
> have no admin privileges (it is a Debian Squeeze and runs gnome2). So
> far, I've:
>
> 1. downloaded the following packages:
>
> kpdf-trinity_3.5.13-0debian9+r1258283+pr3~squeeze_amd64.deb
> kdelibs4c2a-trinity_3.5.13-0debian9+r1261449+pr12~squeeze_amd64.deb
> libtqtinterface_3.5.13-0debian9+r1258011+pr2~squeeze_amd64.deb
> libqt3-mt_3.3.8d-0ubuntu0+sr73+pr181~squeeze_amd64.deb
>
> 2. extracted them using =dpkg-deb -x=: this creates ./usr,
> ./opt/trinity, etc.
>
> 3. tryed to run kpdf:
>
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$(find opt/trinity/lib usr/lib -type d | xargs echo |
> sed "s; ;:;g") opt/trinity/bin/kpdf
>
> this sets
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=opt/trinity/lib:opt/trinity/lib/mime:opt/trinity/lib/mime/packages:opt/trinity/lib/trinity:\
>
>
> opt/trinity/lib/trinity/plugins:opt/trinity/lib/trinity/plugins/styles:\
>
> opt/trinity/lib/trinity/plugins/designer:usr/lib:usr/lib/pkgconfig:\
>
> usr/lib/qt3:usr/lib/qt3/plugins:usr/lib/qt3/plugins/inputmethods:\
> usr/lib/qt3/plugins/imageformats
>
> In the end, kpdf is running but:
>
> 1. I throws many errors a start time:
> 1. complains about dcop server being absent: can I skip this? I
> found nothing relevant in the kpdf man page
> 2. could not find mime type "application octet-stream", seems to
> be related to
> 3. then says "no mime types installed"
>
> 2. file and edit menus have "No text!" names. I guess I can figure
> out why because kpdf is missing its files (i.e., there's no
> /opt/trinity/share/apps/kpdfpart/part.rc et al. in the kpdf
> scope), but I don't know how to fix it. Note that I copied
> ~/.trinity/share/apps/kpdfpart/part.rc.
>
> I'd be glad if someone has the willing to help me polishing this! I
> really miss kpdf at work!
>
> Thank you,
> Nicolas
>
>
> PS: Would it be possible to install and run parts of trinity from a
> fakeroot env?
>
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