kde4

After having no luck in building an Alpha Version of KDE4, I finally found an easy method to go for Beta1 – there are preconfigured packages for Kubuntu. I followed the instructions to include the feisty-backports sources and then installed kde4base-dev, as indicated. Finally, I added a session for KDM as indicated – and voila, here’s a KDE4 environment!

I already blogged about installing KDE4, alpha 2. I also added a comment there, as compilation would always break with an error. Well – I should have a look at the error messages more closely – turned out that the disk of the virtual machine is full again…

So: FIRST deinstalled everything not necessary. THEN issued “make clean” everywhere to get rid of old stuff. And THEN FINALLY compile everything anew; I am now doing kdesupport at the moment – let’s see how it goes….

I already managed to install KDE4 – sort of. As written some time ago, I set up a virtual Ubuntu box and installed KDE4 on it. Now, with Alpha2 out, it’s time to start over – I again deleted the old KDE4 stuff (using make clean) and checked out the SVN repository (here’s the link with the superb tutorial). I will blog on experiences later.

Now, within the newly created vmware-system, I first installed kubuntu 7.04 to have something easy to start with.

Within this system, I will try out KDE4, as I am very interested in the new look and feel and everything.
There are nice tutorials over at kde.org – for today, ‘ll use the “anonymous svn” tutorial, as I have never worked with this tool (there is also an extremly useful “getting started with svn” tutorial there)

I installed kdesvn and added the svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde bookmark. Then, I had a loot at the KDE4 installation tutorial at kde.org. I install the packages given, but I will build qt and cmake later, but I also installed graphviz and kdesdk-scripts (for makeobj).

Next step is to create an extra user – although it is only in a vmware-environment, this can come in handy when things break. I created a .bashrc as given. Finally, we make sure that kde-devel, the new user, has /bin/bash as its shell (sudo usermod -s /bin/bash kde-devel).

As a test, I am going to install latest d-bus – as described. This works – so it seems I am ready to go on and install kde4. I’ll post any unusual stuff here (and experiences too, of course…)

Because I want to try out Alpha versions of KDE4, I decided to go and install vmware-server on the server (makes sense, doesn’t it?)…

First, I added /app-emulation/vmware-server to /etc/portage/package.keywords. Then, I emerged it. I got a serial-number, and then it’s funny configuring…. I altered /etc/xinetd.d/vmware-auth and added this line.
only_from = 10.10.10.0
Then, I run vmware-config (note that there is a wiki-entry on vmware-server); finally, I add my day-to-day user to the vmware-group.

It worked – I can now connect with my vmware-server that’s installed on the client to the one on the server (using my login and password). Now, the only thing I need to try out is move my WinXP vmware installation to the server…