Post by Rex DieterPost by Chris Kolikthanks a lot for the work, but one small question, when will KDE 4.2 be
available for Centos 5.2?
I'm aware of no one that is currently working on it, nor anyone's
immediate plans to do so = no eta.
I've been wanting to work on this for quite awhile, but haven't had the
time or energy to do so. There have been an enterprising person or two
in the past who've gotten previous kde4 builds going on their el5 boxen,
but those efforts haven't yielded anything that's consumable by other
users or any kde-redhat repos yet. I'd welcome any further news of
progress on this.
-- Rex
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Chris:
I did some messing around with this on an old laptop with CentOS 5 and
KDE 4.0.2. Here are my notes that I sent to Rex a while back. It's
not for the faint of heart, but it can be done.
Also note that I built it in userland, it should actually be easier if
you install it as root. I would also recommend doing it first on a
system that you don't care about (or have fully backed up). FYI, some
of the "yum install-ed" dependencies listed below may no longer be
necessary. Also, note that the instructions I followed (and have the
link to below) state that one has to compile a new kernel. I did not
find this to be the case and the stock kernel worked fine (it was
supposed to be an issue with NetworkManager, IIRC), but take this with
a grain of salt.
Good luck.
George
Post by Rex Dieterhttp://www.go2linux.org/forums/installing-kde-4-on-centos-t-7.html,
but I ignored the first poster's instruction as he had little success.
Instead, I used the instructions provided by the second poster
("newuser" ). I initially downloaded and compiled a new kernel, but I
didn't install it figuring I would try with the latest CentOS kernel
(2.6.18-53.1.21.el5 is what I'm running). I set up a user and
http://techbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Getting_Started/Build/KDE4, in
http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Increased_Productivity_in_KDE4_with_Scripts/.bashrc.
I made a few of the changes suggested by "newuser" in the go2linux
forum post (above).
Next, I compiled and installed Qt4.4 from Trolltech per their
instructions. Nothing unusual here.
I then installed the suggested rpms via yum: yum install
clucene-core-devel libxml-devel libxslt-devel \
dbus-devel boost-devel bzip2-devel openssl-devel alsa-lib-devel \
redland-devel rasqal-devel raptor-devel hspell-devel aspell-devel \
cups-devel xine-lib-devel avahi-devel gamin-devel OpenEXR-devel \
enchant-devel jasper-devel ilmbase-devel pcre-devel gpgme-devel \
libxklavier-devel glib-devel libusb-devel libsmbclient-devel \
libxcb-devel NetworkManager-devel lm_sensors-devel libraw1394-devel \
bluez-libs-devel gcc-c++ libXext-devel cmake subversion giflib-devel \
libpng-devel libXdamage-devel libXcomposite-devel libXrender-devel \
fontconfig-devel libXft-devel libXcursor-devel libXfixes-devel \
ruby-devel libXScrnSaver-devel libkdcraw-devel exiv2-devel \
lcms-devel libtiff-devel sqlite-devel libxkbfile-devel \
imlib2-devel patch gstreamer-plugins-base-devel
http://sourceforge.net/projects/clucene/ (FYI, the above yum command
included clucene, but it isn't available).
Then Strigi from Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/strigi/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/qimageblitz/
Then, I downloaded kdelibs, kdepimlibs and kdebase from the 4.0.4
branches subversion server (FYI, strigi and qimageblitz also appear to
be available in kdesupport, which I did not build)
svn checkout svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/branches/KDE/4.0/kdelibs
svn checkout svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/branches/KDE/4.0/kdepimlibs
svn checkout svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/branches/KDE/4.0/kdebase
compiled and installed in user land (not as root). It seems to work
well, though I'm missing several menu items (the most painful being
for System Settings, but I can simply run it from the command line,
I'll look into rebuilding the menus later).
I'll try reinstalling as root, though it doesn't seem to be necessary
at this stage.
So far, no real issues, though I haven't really pushed the system
much. I'll play with it for a few days and let you know if anything
unusual comes up.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
George
Rex:
Sorry to reply to myself, but this is just to let you know that I
finished installing the rest of KDE 4.0.4 today. The files installed
were:
svn checkout svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/branches/KDE/4.0/kdeutils
svn checkout svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/branches/KDE/4.0/kdenetwork
svn checkout svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/branches/KDE/4.0/kdeadmin
svn checkout svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/branches/KDE/4.0/kdeartwork
svn checkout svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/branches/KDE/4.0/kdebindings
svn checkout svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/branches/KDE/4.0/kdeedu
svn checkout svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/branches/KDE/4.0/kdegames
svn checkout svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/branches/KDE/4.0/kdegraphics
svn checkout svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/branches/KDE/4.0/kdemultimedia
svn checkout svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/branches/KDE/4.0/kdetoys
svn checkout svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/branches/KDE/4.0/kdewebdev
svn checkout svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/branches/KDE/4.0/kdesdk
svn checkout svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/branches/KDE/4.0/kdeaccessibility
The only hitch was that kdebindings had to be installed as root
because it wanted to write some files to the directory where python is
located (I believe /usr/lib/python2.4). There were several modules
that stated that some functionality was not being installed due to
missing files (things like libraries to handle a wider range of
archive files), but nothing that prohibited a successful compile and
install. If you want me to go back and try to recreate what optional
files were missed, I can do that -- sorry I didn't catch it the first
time around.
G