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Awhile back, Mark Constable created some packages for running latest trunk of KDE. When he decided he could no longer maintain, them, we moved them to gitorious and I (and LastOfTheWolves) took over maintenance. I don't know if Stephan is stil maintaining the "split" PKGBUILDs, but I am keeping the "svn" (monolithic) branch up-to-date.
Despite the fact that they are bleeding edge, I have found them to be unusually stable. In fact, I've had better luck with these on my production system than I did with 4.3-stable packages (especially in kdepim applications).
Now that kde-4.4-unstable is available, the need for these packages is less, but I will continue to maintain the PKGBUILD files. Feel free to send me bug reports. I hope, soon, to upload my "build script" which automates the process of building and installing these.
Here are instructions for downloading, building, and installing kde-trunk using the PKGBUILDs:
1. Make sure git is installed:
pacman -S git
2. Use git to obtain a clone of the repostitory:
git clone git://gitorious.org/kde-git-pkgbuilds/kde-git-pkgbuilds.git
3. Edit /etc/makepkg.conf
Add the following lines:
PKGDEST=/var/abs/local/eth-os/packages
SRCDEST=/var/abs/local/eth-os/sources
Warning: This will mean that ANY package you build with makepkg will be placed in /var/abs/local/eth-os/packages from now on!
4. cd to kde-git-pkgbuilds/svn/PKGNAME (where PKGNAME might be "kde-qt", for instance) and type:
makepkg
If this step fails the first time, don't fret. Occasionally, the initial creation of the git repository hits a weird timeout or something. Just run it again and it should complete.
5. Become root and install using pacman:
su
pacman -U /var/abs/local/eth-os/packages/PKGNAME.tar.gz
Repeat steps 4 and 5 for any packages you want to install. Every time you run the makepkg command, the script will grab the latest sources from kde svn (or, for kde-qt and amarok, git) and install them on your computer.
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thank you! this will be very useful :-)
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