Getting Started/Build/KDE4/openSUSE

In openSUSE 10.2 and newer, you can install packages using Zypper:

sudo zypper install <package-name>

In older releases of SUSE, you can use YaST:

su
yast -i <packagename>

Required Packages

The packages you will need to install are:

xorg-x11-devel
libxml2-devel 
kdesdk3 
clucene-core-devel 
boost-devel
libjpeg-devel 
liblrdf-devel 
libpng-devel 
libxslt-devel 
libredland-devel
Mesa-devel 
giflib-devel 
subversion 
gcc 
gcc-c++
gmp-devel (needed to build kdesupport)
xine-devel
libgpgme-devel (needed to build kdepimlibs)
pcre-devel

Optional Packages

You can skip the manual and painful installation kdesupport and its dependencies ( Qt 4.3, CMake 2.4.6, DBus, Hal, clucene-core, Strigi, Soprano and other Nepomuk dependencies) by adding the KDE:KDE4 repository from the openSUSE Build Service to your installation sources.

For openSUSE 10.2 and newer add this Repository to your Install Source (Yast)

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/STABLE:/Desktop/openSUSE_10.2/

For older versions of SUSE Linux do:

su
installation_sources -a http://software.opensuse.org/download/KDE:/KDE4:/[YOUR SUSE LINUX VERSION]

Now install the following packages:

cmake
dbus-1-devel
libqt4-devel
libqca2-devel
libsoprano-devel
libqimageblitz-devel
strigi
strigi-devel

CMake binary packages for openSUSE are available from the KDE:KDE4 repository as well as from the openSUSE build service.

There are a lot more packages that are needed to satisfy the config-check, such as libusb-devel, bison etc., so look out for the config notifications and install accordingly. Please remember to skip any instructions that refer to kdesupport below. Start to compile with kdelibs.

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