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KDE4 ports for CRUX

Authors: Alan Mizrahi

How to install a functional KDE4 environment in CRUX

Before Compilation

1. Ensure the kde4 repository directory is included in your prt-get configuration by adding prtdir /usr/ports/kde4 in /etc/prt-get.conf
2. I suggest you to configure pkgmk to ignore .footprint mismatches by setting PKGMK_IGNORE_FOOTPRINT=yes in /etc/pkgmk.conf
3. If you have more than 1 computer I suggest you to set up distcc to reduce the compilation time. In addition to distcc, you may also want to use ccache.
4. You may wish to disable certain components of KDE4 from being built.
   To do this, check the Pkgfiles. In each Pkgfile there is a DO_NOT_COMPILE variable that you may set with whatever you want to prevent from being built.
   I have written the corresponding possible values in each Pkgfile in order to make it easy.
5. You may wish to check the optional dependencies before starting the compilation, they are documented later in this text file.

Compilation

Just fire up prt-get with the modules you want to install: $ prt-get depinst kdebase kdepim kdegraphics kdenetwork kdemultimedia kdeutils

There are several external programs that are not part of the official KDE4 distribution, but they are included in the repository and you may install them too. For example: amarok, basket.

Configuration

To use kdm as your login manager I advise you to follow these steps:

1. cp -r /usr/share/config/kdm /etc/X11/
2. Change your inittab to start kdm on runlevel 3, add this:
   x:3:respawn:/usr/bin/kdm -nodaemon -config /etc/X11/kdm/kdmrc
   Additionally, you will have to configure your inittab to run everything from runlevel 2 in runlevel 3, because CRUX by default doesn't define runlevel 3.
   Now if you are satisfied, make the default runlevel 3.
   My inittab looks like this:
   

   id:3:initdefault:
   rc::sysinit:/etc/rc
   rs:S1:wait:/etc/rc.single
   rm:23:wait:/etc/rc.multi
   rd:06:wait:/etc/rc.shutdown
   su:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin -p
   c1:123:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux
   c2:23:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty2 linux
   c3:23:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty3 linux
   c4:23:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty4 linux
   ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now
   x:3:respawn:/usr/bin/kdm -nodaemon -config /etc/X11/kdm/kdmrc
   

Upgrading from KDE3

1. While the CRUX KDE3 ports use ~/.kde to store the configuration files, the KDE4 ports use ~/.kde4 .
   Therefore, if you want KDE4 to migrate your old settings you can rename ~/.kde to ~/.kde4 , but I strongly suggest you make a backup first.
2. If you used kopete in KDE3 and have been keeping chat logs from an MSN account, you will have to rename the directory holding your logs:
   mv ~/.kde4/share/apps/kopete/logs/MSNProtocol ~/.kde4/share/apps/kopete/logs/WlmProtocol

Tips

• If you want to make firefox look KDE-ish, check out this link

This document is work in progress. Please send suggestions or improvements to alan at mizrahi dot com dot ve