Getting Started/Build/Distributions/Fedora

Building KDE4 From Source (Fedora Linux requirements)

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Further Reading	kdesvn-build: The KDE From Subversion Build Tool KDE Build Environment including useful scripts Introduction to CMake

Toolchain

Install basic toolchain:

yum groupinstall 'Development Tools'

yum install subversion cmake

Install the yum-utils package to get yum-builddep:

yum install yum-utils

On Fedora 16 kdesrc-build will complain about qmake being missing. It is located at /usr/bin/qmake-qt4. Simply create a symbolic for qmake:

ln -s qmake-qt4 /usr/bin/qmake

Basic functional desktop

yum-builddep kdelibs kde-baseapps kde-workspace kde-runtime akonadi soprano polkit-qt strigi

Full-optionals desktop

yum-builddep kdeaccessibility kdeadmin kdeartwork \
    kde-baseapps kde-workspace kde-runtime \
    kdebindings kdeedu kdegames kdegraphics \
    kdelibs kdemultimedia kdenetwork kdepim \
    kdepimlibs kdeplasma-addons kdesdk kdetoys \
    kdeutils akonadi soprano polkit-qt strigi

KOffice

 

Warning
Fedora 12 (and less) still ship with KOffice 1.6. yum-builddep will install dependencies for the KDE 3 version.

yum-builddep koffice-suite

Documentation

It generally requires the following tools installed:

yum install doxygen graphviz qt-doc

Module prerequisites

To install prerequisites just run

yum-builddep module-name

Where "module-name" is the name of the module you want to install