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Getting_Started/Build/Requirements
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Introduction
This page details the software requirements that need to be installed on your system before you can start building KDE Software. 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.
Required Steps
You need to have completed the following steps:
- Set up your [[../Environment|Build Environment]]
- Selected your [[../Recipes|Build Recipes]]
Definitions
The Build Requirements for each Module will be documented in a common table format as follows:
| Requirement | Stable Requires | Unstable Requires | Devel Pkgs? | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Foobar | >= 2.0 | >= 1.0 | Yes | A library to enable KDE Software to foo your bar. |
The fields in this table are defined as follows:
| Requirement | The project that KDE Software depends on, including a link to the Project home page.] |
| Stable Requires | The version of the Project that the current Stable KDE Release requires. The background color indicates if the requirement is optional (green) or mandatory (red). Stable is currently KDE Release 4.6. |
| Unstable Requires | The version of the Project that the current Unstable development version requires. The background color indicates if the requirement is optional (green) or mandatory (red). Unstable is currently targeting KDE Release 4.7. |
| Devel Pkgs? | If installing from distribution packages, whether you also need to install the -devel packages. |
| Details | More information about the Project and the requirement |
System Prerequisites
TODO: Complete updating this list
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.
Requirements as at 2011-03-02.
| Requirement | Stable Requires | Unstable Requires | Devel Pkgs? | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GCC / G++ | >= 4.2 | >= 4.2 | No | |
| Git | No | Revision control software, required for development builds. | ||
| Subversion | No | Revision control software, required for development builds. | ||
| pkg-config | >= | >= | No | |
| CMake | >= 2.6.4 | >= 2.6.4 | No | Build configuration tool |
| 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 | |
| Shared-Desktop-Ontologies | >= | >= | No | |
| 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
Many distributions provide shortcut meta-packages or install commands to simplify installing all the KDE requirements. Check the Distributions page first to see if your distribution provides a simple way to install the requirements.
The Ontologies are a shared resource required for the semantic desktop.
| Requirement | Stable Requires | Unstable Requires | Devel Pkgs? | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shared-Desktop-Ontologies | >= | >= 0.6.50 | No |
Your distribution packages should be sufficient for this package but some older distributions may not have them so you may need to build them yourself using either the Easy Recipe or Full Recipe.
To obtain the source you can either download a tarball from the website or use the following svn command:
git clone git://oscaf.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/oscaf/shared-desktop-ontologies
Next Step
Once all requirements have been installed it is time to install Qt