gene heskett posted on Mon, 21 Nov 2011 19:40:23 -0500 as excerpted: > But the kde there is 4.3.5, not the best by a stretch. > > Back in the kde-3 days there was a konstruct utility that worked fairly > well, and I used that several times on a fedora box > > Is there such a beast that would build and install 4.6.5 on a 64 bit > centos-6 box?
There's a couple scripted build methods available. Note that I use Gentoo so haven't used these, and that kde has only recently switched mostly to git, so to some extent these scripts may be in transition as well, but here's the links: General page (see that disclaimer): http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Build In particular (an anchor further down the same page): http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Build#Scripted_Builds There's quite a bit more linked from there or available by simply wandering around techbase in general. Meanwhile, some months ago I was helping someone try to build and install, maybe it was 4.5.x at that point (only kdelibs, but once kdelibs installs, the rest is far easier, since kdelibs sets the base for everything else and has similar dependencies), on a CentOS, I believe it was 5.x, so even older. He was running into quite a few version-too-low issues on dependencies and was building them from scratch as well. However, he made quite some progress over several days, conquering one problem at a time, and I believe ultimately must have gotten it installed, as he seemed pretty close by the last. He'd ask questions about what was required, listing what he had, and I'd look up the Gentoo dependencies to see what the minimum they required for their building was. Together, with help from others at times as well, we surmounted a number of obstacles, with him either building the required versions, or for at least one, passing an configure option so it didn't build the component that would have required that dependency. However, as an alternative, you may find either the binary rpms or the srpms as available on sites like rpmfind.net will work better for you, with the srpms at least helping navigate the dependency issues if you end up using them to build from sources. Years ago when I was back on Mandrake, I used rpmfind a *LOT*, often installing various rpms from rawhide, etc, on Mandrake, since rawhide was the only thing with rpms of the quite new versions I wanted, available. Good luck whichever way you go. You may need it. =:^\ (Actually, not so much luck, as quite some patience and persistence, tackling and overcoming one problem at a time.) OTOH, as I said, I've not used those scripts. Perhaps they're actually better than I'm thinking, and it'll be set it up and come back a half day to perhaps 3 days later, depending on the speed of your system and how many dependencies you need to build as well, to have it all built and installed. =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
