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Getting_Started/Build/Requirements

Building KDE4 From Source/Requirements

Tutorial Series	Getting Started
Previous	Getting Started
What's Next	Qt
Further Reading	n/a

Introduction

This page details the software requirements that need to be installed on your system before you can start building kdelibs and the KDE applications. For most of these requirements it is preferable to use your distribution supplied packages, however in some case you will need to build some requirements yourself and this page will also explain how to do so.

Build Recipes

Two different recipes are provided for building KDE and its prerequisites.

The Easy Recipe relies on you setting up your environment according to the KDE recommendations. This will give you many shortcuts to save on typing. See Setting Up The Environment section to do this.

The Full Recipe is provided for those who wish to control their build environment or to see the full steps required and who don't mind lots of typing.

System Prerequisites

NOTE: This section needs a major update! Update to include all dependencies and the correct version. In the Build KDE page include this table for each module but with just the module requirements listed. Perhaps make this list just for kdelibs/kdebase?

All of these packages should be installed from your distribution. If you cannot meet these requirements from your distribution, it is recommended to either update to a more recent distribution or to build KDE in a virtual machine.

The 'Stable' column shows the required version for the current Stable branch while the 'Master' column shows the required version for the current development version (aka 'trunk'). On most distributions you will also need to install the matching -devel packages for some of the software, this is indicated in the Devel column of the table.

Requirements as at 2011-03-02, Stable Branch currently KDE Release 4.6, Master currently targeting KDE Release 4.7.

Requirement	Stable	Master	Devel?	Details
GCC / G++	>= 4.2	>= 4.2	No
Git			No
SVN			No
pkg-config	>=	>=	No
CMake	>= 2.6.4	>= 2.6.4	No
DBus	>= 1.4.0	>= 1.4.0	Yes	Also dbus-glib
X11	>=	>=	Yes
Mesa	>=	>=	Yes	mesa-common-dev and libglu1-mesa-dev
libjpeg	>=	>=	Yes
libpng	>=	>=	Yes
libungif	>=	>=	Yes
librdf	>=	>=	Yes
libbz2	>=	>=	Yes
libxml2	>=	>=	Yes
libxslt	>=	>=	Yes
Boost	>=	>=	Yes
libmysqlclient	>=	>=	Yes
shared-mime-info	>=	>=	Yes
DocBook XML DTD's	>= 4.2	>= 4.2	No	Required for the KDE documentation and help
DocBook XSl Stylesheets	>= 4.2	>= 4.2	No	Required for the KDE documentation and help

Hardware Libraries

HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) is required by KDE 4.5 and earlier for interfacing with your hardware. Your distribution supplied packages should be sufficient for this.

From KDE 4.6 onwards HAL has been deprecated in favor of uDisk, uPower and related projects, but all but the most recent distributions will still require HAL.

Distributions

The following pages contain distribution specific information for installing the required packages, these may be out-of-date:

Ark Linux
Arch Linux
Fedora
Kubuntu and Debian or check out Project Neon-less compiling--more hacking your module
openSUSE Note: there is a specific guide for openSUSE. However be careful because it may update a large number of your stable packages.
Gentoo
Linux from Scratch or to build from source.
Mandriva

Shared-Desktop-Ontologies

Requirements as at 2011-03-02, Stable Branch currently KDE Release 4.6, Master currently targeting KDE Release 4.7.

Requirement	Stable	Master	Devel?	Details
Shared-Desktop-Ontologies	>=	>=	No

The ontologies are a shared resource required for the semantic desktop. Your distribution packages should be sufficient for this package but some older distributions may not have them.

Easy Recipe

This recipe assumes you have set up the recommended KDE scripts, environment variables, and git configuration.

cd <your source root directory>
svn checkout https://oscaf.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/oscaf/trunk/ontologies
cd ontologies
cmakekde

Full Recipe

This recipe assumes you are not using the recommended scripts and have properly set up your own environment.

cd <your source root directory>
svn checkout https://oscaf.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/oscaf/trunk/ontologies
cd <your build root directory, or the module source dir>
mkdir <your module build dir>
cd <your module build dir>
cmake <path to your module source dir>
      \ -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$KDEDIR 
      \ -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=debugfull
nice make -j2 # for faster compiles use -j(X+1)' where X is your number of processor cores
make install

Next Step

Once all requirements have been installed it is time to install Qt