KDE 4.0.0: how to install it on Mandriva 2008

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It finally happened!
NOTE: please contribute commenting! Any report of a working installation and of a failed installation will help me help you and other Mandriva users!
Thank you all in advance!


The new and much awaited version of the K Desktop Environment has been released today!

I will not lose my time with celebrations and thanksgivings (I will do it later) and I immediately start giving you instruction to install this wonderful software!
This installation will not harm your previously installed KDE3.

If you want to install the first stable release of KDE4 on you r Mandriva just give (as root) the following simple commands:
urpmi.addmedia kde4 ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/latest/Mandriva/2008.0/RPMS/i586 with media_info/synthesis.hdlist.cz
or (better!):
urpmi.addmedia kde4 ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/latest/Mandriva/2008.0/RPMS/i586 with media_info/hdlist.cz
The first version of the command will download a smaller file, the second a bigger one, but it will allow the package manager (urpmi) to know in advancethe content of the rpm you are going to install.
I suggest the second one, but the first will work anyway!

Now you can install KDE4:
urpmi kdebase4 kdeartwork4 kdeedu4 kdegames4 kdegraphics4 kdemultimedia4 kdenetwork4 kdepim4 kdeutils4 kdebase4-workspace
urpmi --auto-select
Up to now kdepim4, the suite that contains the programs of kontact, is not available, but it will arrive soon.
Anyway kdepim4 is available as an unstable version (RC2, Relase Candidate 2). If you want to try it you can get the rpms from the following repository:
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable/latest/Mandriva/2008.0/i586
In addition if you want to add the urpmi sources for KDE RC2, I can adress you to the following link.

Addons
You can get some additional plasma applets and dragonplayer, the evolution of codeine, a very usable video player, with the following commands:
urpmi extragear-plasma
urpmi dragonplayer
Common problems
If your desktop is white, right-click on it, selct configure background, choose your favourite one and then click on apply until the Desktop i redrawn.

Credits
To all the superb KDE developers and users that contributed to this fantastic project! Thanks!!!!

1 commento:

Esalando Prassi ha detto...

On 13 Jan the repository was update, adding, among the others, the package cmake 2.5.0.