First of all, thank you for this nice piece of torrent pgm. I have just downloaded, compiled and installed it into /usr/local subdir. Almost everything works fine except there are no plugins available inside ktorrent. They were compiled too and reside in /usr/local/lib/kde3 but I have this error msg in ~/.xsession-errors:

kio (KMimeType): WARNING: KServiceType::offers : servicetype KTorrent/Plugin not found

How can I explain KTorrent (or KDE?) to find plugins?

I have Debian etch, KDE 3.5.5 and KTorrent is compiled from the latest sources downloaded a few hours ago (2.1rc1). Just tell me if you need more details.

Thank you.

You have to install ktorrent in your KDE directory otherwise it won't find plugins.

So I guess the correct way would be ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/lib/kde3

No, /usr/local/lib/kde3 was created by ktorrent install. I wanted to separate the locally compiled ktorrent from Debian packages, so that's why I used configure --prefix=/usr/local. Simply running ./configure alone will set it up to be installed / but this way files mix up with .deb packages' files and I wanted to avoid this.

Btw., if installed / then plugins are found and there is no problem. Looks like it can't be compiled in a way I wanted originally.

Anyway, thank you.

I finally installed 2.1 and I have the same problem, even with $KDEDIRS=/usr/local:/usr so if you have any solution thanks (instead of installing in /usr).

how about "./configure --prefix=$(kde-config --prefix)"?

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$ kde-config --prefix
/usr


So it's not a good idea... I think the best is to install his own kdelib in /usr/local too, something like that. But I do not use ktorrent anymore (for another reason, but it's a nice program).