The Linux Questions Thread: a bunch of pitfalls, but technically it's possible

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10011: Jul 22, 2007

I'm assuming you're using Somethingbuntu; if not, this might not work:

The package you need is, surprisingly, called kde4-devel, but Kubuntu installs KDE4 to /usr/lib/kde4, since putting it in /usr would make it clash with KDE3. This means you need to change some environment variables.

This is done automatically if you log into KDE4, but since I don't think it's really ready for regular use yet I have a function in my .zshrc to do this:

code:

kde4 () {
        export KDEDIRS=/usr/lib/kde4
        export KDE_SESSION_VERSION=4
        export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/kde4/lib
        export QT_PLUGIN_PATH=$HOME/.kde4/lib/kde4/plugins:/usr/lib/kde4/lib/kde4/plugins
        export PATH=/usr/lib/kde4/bin:$PATH
}

(I tried to translate it to bash but I may have got something wrong.) So putting this in your .bashrc, then running kde4 before CMake should make it behave, I think.

10011 fucked around with this message at 03:18 on Jun 28, 2008

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10011: Jul 22, 2007

Just a guess, but does installing libx11composite-dev help?

# ¿ Jun 28, 2008 01:02

10011: Jul 22, 2007

As far as power management goes, there are several programs that live in the system tray and don't care what desktop you're running. You won't be missing out on anything important by using Xfce.

And the Ubuntu installer's perfectly happy to scrap everything if you tell it to.

# ¿ Aug 25, 2008 03:23

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