Kdm 4.2.2

[alie]

Hi guys,

why there's no KDM 4.2.2 in ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.2-release/Latest/

 

[vivek]

It is there
x11/kde4

You have to build from source code. I tried binary and it failed but ports method did worked for me. The kdemultimedia4
package has audio/lame as a runtime dependency but that package can not be pre-built due to licensing issues. So the install of kdemultimedia4 fails if you choose to install kde4. But that was in RC2 and they may have fixed into 7.2-RELEASE.

 

[DutchDaemon]

kde4.tbz (ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.2-release/Latest/kde4.tbz) contains:

@comment PKG_FORMAT_REVISION:1.1
@name kde4-4.2.2

So [cmd=]pkg_add -r kde4[/cmd] should work (possible problems like the one above aside).

 

[phoenix]

Note: with KDE4, everything is installed under the /usr/local/kde4/ directory tree. This is not part of a normal user's $PATH, so things like which, whereis, and locate won't work to find apps. Just do an ls of /usr/local/kde4/bin/ to see what's installed.

To enable KDM, either edit /etc/ttys and change the xdm line to point to /usr/local/kde4/bin/kdm, or search the forums for the kdm RC script I posted.

 

[Brandybuck]

If you don't want all of KDE4, you can install just kdebase-workspace and its dependencies.

 

[alie]

@vivek: yes, it fails even for 7.2-RELEASE
@DutchDaemon: pkg_add -r kde4 doesnt have KDM inside...

 

[vivek]

Try port method which will fetch and built everything for you. Or just go to /usr/ports/audio/lame

cd /usr/ports/audio/lame && make install clean

And now you can use pkg_add -r or just install it using sysinstall.

 

[alie]

oops, sorry i didnt know KDM4 is located in /usr/local/kde4/bin/ my bad...