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cyprinus

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Registered: 2007-02-07

Posts: 33

Re: [REPO] kde4 4.0/amarok2/koffice2

Done, but not before. It confuses me, why. Anyway thank you

cyprinus

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From: /home/cyprinus

Registered: 2007-02-07

Posts: 33

Re: [REPO] kde4 4.0/amarok2/koffice2

I still have some problems - corrupted packages:
error: failed to commit transaction (corrupted package)
archive decibel-0.5.0-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz was corrupted (bad MD5 or SHA1 checksum)
archive kdebase4-3.95.0-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz was corrupted (bad MD5 or SHA1 checksum)

errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

Do I have to install those packages manually? It helped with ver. 3.94. pacman -Scc didn't help.

Last edited by cyprinus (2007-11-03 11:50:34)

emmybear

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Registered: 2007-04-20

Posts: 38

Re: [REPO] kde4 4.0/amarok2/koffice2

Well, I tried it out but clicking on the menu crashed the entirety of plasma, and there was some other buggy stuff as well. Seems to be heading in a neat direction though.

I would also like to add that adding "export KDEHOME=$HOME/.kde4" to the profile script for KDE4 works flawlessly for those of you(like me) wanting to try it out in parallel with an already configured KDE3 installation. Cheers.

tardo

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Registered: 2006-07-15

Posts: 526

Re: [REPO] kde4 4.0/amarok2/koffice2

I still have some problems - corrupted packages:
error: failed to commit transaction (corrupted package)
archive decibel-0.5.0-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz was corrupted (bad MD5 or SHA1 checksum)
archive kdebase4-3.95.0-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz was corrupted (bad MD5 or SHA1 checksum)

errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

Do I have to install those packages manually? It helped with ver. 3.94. pacman -Scc didn't help.

Try manually downloading the package from the server. Other's seem to have got the packages without a problem.

MillTek

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Registered: 2005-01-30

Posts: 442

Re: [REPO] kde4 4.0/amarok2/koffice2

How do you get the 'start' menu going or the control center??  Dows anywhere have documentation for KDE4 (and yes, I do relize it's beta s/ware).

Thanks,
Jim

somairotevoli

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Registered: 2006-05-23

Posts: 335

Re: [REPO] kde4 4.0/amarok2/koffice2

control center is called systemsettings
as far as startmenu..... run kickoff (don't know how to get it in the "kicker")

tardo

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Registered: 2006-07-15

Posts: 526

Re: [REPO] kde4 4.0/amarok2/koffice2

I deleted my .kde dir and the menu automagically reappeared on the panel (same with clock).

MillTek

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Registered: 2005-01-30

Posts: 442

Re: [REPO] kde4 4.0/amarok2/koffice2

OK.
I tried systemsettings and that worked fine. kickoff go a SIGABRT.  Any ideas on that?

somairotevoli

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Registered: 2006-05-23

Posts: 335

Re: [REPO] kde4 4.0/amarok2/koffice2

Perhaps it would be better to rename your .kde folder instead of deleting for those who still want to use kde3.

tardo

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Registered: 2006-07-15

Posts: 526

Re: [REPO] kde4 4.0/amarok2/koffice2

next update i'll rename the kdehome to .kde4

deavik

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Registered: 2007-11-04

Posts: 8

Re: [REPO] kde4 4.0/amarok2/koffice2

Hey guys, what about the x86_64 users?
Obviously I'm grateful to everyone who's contributing to making these packages, but I was just wondering if anyone's working on beta 4 64bit packages. I looked here: http://nagi-fanboi.net/arch/x86_64/

Thanks

jinn

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From: Gothenburg

Registered: 2005-12-10

Posts: 506

Re: [REPO] kde4 4.0/amarok2/koffice2

Has anyone tried the debian kde4 livecd? I tried it with qemu and my whole system just froze.. Had to poweroff.

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once

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From: Taiwan

Registered: 2006-09-12

Posts: 267

Re: [REPO] kde4 4.0/amarok2/koffice2

Has anyone tried the debian kde4 livecd? I tried it with qemu and my whole system just froze.. Had to poweroff.

had try it this morning, and everything  seems ok, but not on gemu.

tardo

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Registered: 2006-07-15

Posts: 526

Re: [REPO] kde4 4.0/amarok2/koffice2

Hey guys, what about the x86_64 users?
Obviously I'm grateful to everyone who's contributing to making these packages, but I was just wondering if anyone's working on beta 4 64bit packages. I looked here: http://nagi-fanboi.net/arch/x86_64/

Thanks

Gimme a couple more days. My x64 machine is old =[

miggols99

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Registered: 2007-06-10

Posts: 424

Re: [REPO] kde4 4.0/amarok2/koffice2

Has anyone tried the debian kde4 livecd? I tried it with qemu and my whole system just froze.. Had to poweroff.

Worked pretty good for me, but the login took a while. I couldn't get kwin's compositing working yet though...

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tardo

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Registered: 2006-07-15

Posts: 526

Re: [REPO] kde4 4.0/amarok2/koffice2

x86_64 packages uploaded. Chances are some might be corrupted, if so, please email me (or post here) telling me which one. This is probably the last time I build x86_64 packages, since it's a bit of a chore now considering I have so much work at hand.

Otherwise, have fun.

tanis

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From: Poland / Waterloo, ON, Canada

Registered: 2007-04-21

Posts: 259

Re: [REPO] kde4 4.0/amarok2/koffice2

tardo: I was able to install KDE4 from x86_64 packages, two were corrupted, but after re-downloading them it was fine.
If you are interested, I can help with building x86_64 packages. I am not sure what /etc/makepkg.conf settings should
be used though (especially CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS) - I remember there was a comment about two different settings, one for building for
others, and one for building for only local machine...

skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

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Re: [REPO] kde4 4.0/amarok2/koffice2

especially CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS

CFLAGS="-march=generic -mtune=generic -02 -pipe"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"

If you were building for you own machine, you'd want to replace 'generic' with 'native'.

tardo

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Registered: 2006-07-15

Posts: 526

Re: [REPO] kde4 4.0/amarok2/koffice2

actually, -march stays as it is. just add -mtune=generic to C[XX]FLAGS.

And I appreciate the help. The process is really simple, just build following a specific order, then upload the packages for me (or if you prefer, you can host it yourself). For those interested, here is my build order:

deps first in order: strigi, soprano-svn, qca-svn, telepathy-qt-svn, tapioca-qt-svn, decibel, qimageblitz-svn
kde4 in order: kdelibs4, kdepimlibs4, kdebase4, then all the rest in any order.

Some of the packages have specific deps that may need to be updated (like kdegraphics -> poppler-qt4). But this should follow official updates. Others don't really have to be updated, but having the latest package at hand is nice.

Either way, RC1 isn't coming till late november I think, so there's time. I'll help you out when the time comes.

ianegg

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Registered: 2007-06-18

Posts: 38

Re: [REPO] kde4 4.0/amarok2/koffice2

rasqal is on the x86_64 mirror, but it's not listed in the db file, so pacman won't install kde4 until you install rasqal manually

tardo

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Registered: 2006-07-15

Posts: 526

Re: [REPO] kde4 4.0/amarok2/koffice2

rasqal used to be in extra, guess it was removed. I've added it back.

tardo

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Registered: 2006-07-15

Posts: 526

Re: [REPO] kde4 4.0/amarok2/koffice2

For those having problems with mime-types, the menu, etc, here's a fix i got from #plasma

In /etc/profile.d/kde4.sh, remove the lines that set XDG_DATA_DIRS, and add "unset XDG_DATA_DIRS". This should fix the problem. And because I know quite a lot of you have no idea what I'm talking about, here's what the file should look like:

export KDEDIR=/opt/kde4
export KDEDIRS=$KDEDIR:/usr
export KDEHOME=~/.kde # or ~/.kde4
export PATH=$PATH:$KDEDIR/bin
export MANPATH=$MANPATH:$KDEDIR/man
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PKG_CONFIG_PATH:$KDEDIR/lib/pkgconfig
unset XDG_DATA_DIRS
unset XDG_CONFIG_DIRS

I'll fix this in my next build.

edit: apparently, adding it to .bashrc is the best, but that may cause problems for those that use non-kde4 DEs.

Last edited by tardo (2007-11-08 18:34:26)

somairotevoli

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Registered: 2006-05-23

Posts: 335

Re: [REPO] kde4 4.0/amarok2/koffice2

Tardo, I have built up to kdebase-svn and all seems well except I can't seem to get my testing user to load it. It seems to be wanting to use /opt/kde instead of /opt/kde4
I am able to run the kde4 apps through kde3 so I know it is installed correctly. I guess it has to do w/ my paths. How does one set the paths to use kde4?

ETA: Nevermind, I added the contents of the example .bashrc here http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started … ts/.bashrc to my testing user's .bashrc:-)

Last edited by somairotevoli (2007-11-08 20:37:32)

tardo

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Registered: 2006-07-15

Posts: 526

Re: [REPO] kde4 4.0/amarok2/koffice2

if you're not using /opt/kde4/bin/startkde, make sure you source /etc/profile.d/kde4.sh
I've made it inactive so those running kde3 don't load kdeinit4, kded4, etc while running kde3. If you use the startkde script in /opt/kde4/bin, i've modified it to call source kde4.sh automagically.

MillTek

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Registered: 2005-01-30

Posts: 442

Re: [REPO] kde4 4.0/amarok2/koffice2

Tardo,

I modified /etc/profile.d/kde4.sh exactly per your post on the previous page. (I commented all other lines out and pasted yours in)

I'm not running kde3 and I am sourcing /etc/profile.d/kde.sh in startkde.

I still have no menus and I get a sigabrt  when I try the kde icon in the lower left corner of my desktop.  If I try twice for a menu it crashed kde4 completely. Any ideas?

This is a clean Arch install specifically to test kde4 so I haven't modified anything else.

Jim