[Users] Claws Mail themes directory

[edwardp at openmailbox.org]

On Sat, 03 Oct 2015 19:33:10 +0200
users-request at lists.claws-mail.org wrote:


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> Message: 7
> Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2015 18:59:08 +0200
> From: Ralf Mardorf <info.mardorf at rocketmail.com>
> To: users at lists.claws-mail.org
> Subject: Re: [Users] Claws Mail themes directory
> Message-ID: <20151003185908.6ece6489 at archlinux.localdomain>
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> On Sat, 3 Oct 2015 12:45:58 -0400, edwardp at openmailbox.org wrote:
> >Does $PREFIX represent a specific directory?
> 
> It's the first part of the path.
> 
> "Alternately they can be installed by root by untarring the package
> directly into $PREFIX/share/claws-mail/themes/ They will then be
> available to every user." - http://www.claws-mail.org/themes.php
> 
> PREFIX=/usr
> or
> PREFIX=/usr/local
> 
> /usr usually is used for packages installed from the distro
> repositories.
> 
> /usr/local often is used when building packages from upstream source
> code.
> 
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> Message: 8
> Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2015 18:33:09 +0100
> From: Paul <claws at thewildbeast.co.uk>
> To: users at lists.claws-mail.org
> Subject: Re: [Users] Claws Mail themes directory
> Message-ID: <20151003183309.6ff31b8a at kujata.lan>
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> On Sat, 3 Oct 2015 18:59:08 +0200
> Ralf Mardorf <info.mardorf at rocketmail.com> wrote: 
> 
> > PREFIX=/usr
> > or
> > PREFIX=/usr/local
> > 
> > /usr usually is used for packages installed from the distro
> > repositories.
> > 
> > /usr/local often is used when building packages from upstream source
> > code.
> 
> or, if building yourself, the prefix can be whatever you want it to
> be.
> 
> with regards
> 
> Paul


Thank you both for the replies. I had a little trouble extracting the file as it told me I didn't have the permissions to extract it to /usr/share/claws-mail/themes/. I added the directory (as root) but had to copy the downloaded file from my home directory to it. Then it extracted.  :)