Read the techbase page, that is what its for. http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KDE_on_Solaris
2008/10/31 Jonathan Wilner <jonathan at greenbriardrive.com>: > Hi, > > First off, thanks to all the developers working on KDE4 for Solaris. I am > amazed that you've done and maintained the port at all. > > I've got a couple of questions/comments: > > Re: the bionicmutton.com binaries: > > 1) It's briefly recommended in the install instructions that users install > with pkgtool rather than pkgadd. For those of us that aren't SFE experts, > it's not totally intuitive how to do that. It might help to spell out that > users need to get the spec-files from hg (or the snapshot), > download/unzip/untar into ~/packages, then run pkgtool install-pkgs from > KDE4.x to do the install. > > 2) Installing with pkgtool DEFINITELY works better than with pkgadd. I > previously installed with pkgadd onto snv_98/99. The install mostly > succeeded, but a bunch of the libs packages (most noticeably KDElibs) didn't > create symlinks properly. > > Re: building from spec-files, this didn't work at all for me. For one thing, > it looks like the sites in the includes aren't quite right or the files > aren't there. For instance, there's no http://solaris.bionicmutton.com, but > there is https://solaris.bionicmutton.com. As I noted above, I'm no SFE > expert, so I couldn't seem to work this one out even after changing the > sites.inc. > > Thanks again for all of your hard work. KDE4 for Solaris makes it much > easier to use the platform. > > Best regards, > > Jonathan > > > _______________________________________________ > kde-discuss mailing list > kde-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-discuss > > -- All Documents adhered to the ISO/IEC 26300 standard file format for electronic office documents, such as spreadsheets, charts, presentations and word processing documents from this email address. The author does not take responsibility of the recipients inability to read international standards and who use proprietary products such as MS Office. See: http://www.openoffice.org/ Edward O'Callaghan. -- http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EdwardOcallaghan http://moonshine.opn4.org/ http://www.pcbsd.org/
