%general-entities; ]> $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ LXQt can be installed in /usr or /opt/lxqt. The BLFS editors recommend the latter in the BLFS environment. The former has not been tested in BLFS. Some variables need to be defined in your system profile, as the root user: install -vdm755 /opt/lxqt/{bin,lib,share/man} cat >> /etc/profile.d/extrapaths.sh << "EOF" # Begin LXQt addition pathappend /opt/lxqt/share/man/ MANPATH pathappend /opt/lxqt/bin # End LXQt addition EOF Expand your /etc/ld.so.conf file: cat >> /etc/ld.so.conf << "EOF" # Begin LXQt addition /opt/lxqt/lib # End LXQt addition EOF Before starting to install the packages in the following pages, remember to execute: source /etc/profile Some packages may also install icons from the "hicolor" icon set. Since that icon set is used by many packages, it is a good idea to create a symlink to the one in /usr/share to avoid having multiple installations of . Run the following commands as the root user: install -v -dm755 /opt/lxqt/share/icons && ln -sfv /usr/share/icons/hicolor /opt/lxqt/share/icons Sometimes, the installation paths are hardcoded into installed files. This is the reason why /opt/lxqt is used as installation prefix instead of /opt/lxqt-&lxqt-version;. After installing LXQt Desktop, you may rename the directory and create a symlink: mv /opt/lxqt{,-&lxqt-version;} ln -sfv lxqt-&lxqt-version; /opt/lxqt Later on, you may want to install other versions of LXQt Desktop. To do that, just remove the symlink and use /opt/lxqt as the prefix again. Which version of LXQt Desktop you use depends only on where the symlink points. No other reconfiguration will be needed.