Revision as of 15:52, 21 February 2009

This describes how to set up a virtual machine running KDE from trunk on Linux.

Throughout the tutorial we use VMWare for virtualization and SUSE Linux 11.1 as distribution. Other combinations should work same or similar.

We use VMWare because I think compiling is faster with it.

Install

Install a VMWare virtual machine with SUSE Linux 11.1 as per default. KDE 4 fits into 10 GB harddisk space. But as you start getting fun out of it, you will be happy about additional space. I recommend 40GB. To be able to log in to your VM, disable the firewall:

rcSuSEfirewall2 stop

Inside the VM, install some needed packages:

yast -i subversion gcc-c++ libqt4-devel boost-devel libbz2-devel libxml2-devel pcre-devel libxslt-devel giflib-devel libQtWebKit-devel libgpgme-devel libical-devel

If and only if you have a /lib64 path, you are on an x64 distribution.

on an x64 distribution

Make sure you have the needed environment variables and alias set by having a file /root/.bashrc.

export KDEDIR=/usr/local         
alias cmakekde="cmake . -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$KDEDIR -DLIB_SUFFIX=64 -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=debugfull && make -j2 && make install"
alias cmakekdelibs="cmake ../kdelibs -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$KDEDIR -DLIB_SUFFIX=64 -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=debugfull && make -j2 && make install"

Now activate this file

. /root/.bashrc

on another distribution

Make sure you have the needed environment variables and alias set by having a file /root/.bashrc.

export KDEDIR=/usr/local         
alias cmakekde="cmake . -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$KDEDIR -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=debugfull && make -j2 && make install"
alias cmakekdelibs="cmake ../kdelibs -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$KDEDIR -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=debugfull && make -j2 && make install"

Now activate this file

. /root/.bashrc

Compile

cmake

You need cmake 2.6.2, so go to http://www.cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html and download the latest version, in this example we choose 2.6.2:

cd
wget http://www.cmake.org/files/v2.6/cmake-2.6.2.tar.gz
tar xvzf cmake-2.6.2.tar.gz
cd cmake-2.6.2
./bootstrap && make -j2 && make install

Qt

cd
svn co https://svn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/qt-copy
cd qt-copy
./configure && make -j2 && make install

kdesupport

cd
svn co https://svn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/kdesupport
cd kdesupport
cmakekde

kdelibs

KDELIBS requires an out-of-source build, that is why it is more complicated to build:

cd
svn co https://svn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/KDE/kdelibs
mkdir kdelibs-build
cd kdelibs-build
cmakekdelibs

kdepimlibs

cd
svn co https://svn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/KDE/kdepimlibs
cd kdepimlibs
cmakekde

kdebase

cd 
svn co https://svn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/KDE/kdebase
cd kdebase
cmakekde

Config

Now stop your running display manager:

/etc/init.d/xdm stop

And start your self-compiled display manager:

kdm

To enable automated startup of your kdm, you need to change some SUSE-specific paths in /etc/init.d/xdm:

KDM_BIN=/usr/local/bin/kdm
KDM4_BIN=/usr/local/bin/kdm