KDE 4 in gentoo portage?

[oort]

Ad2. For now You can't resize the panel directly, though it is probably possible through editing the config and svg files.
Ad9. There is a kde-l10n package.
Ad10. KDE 4.0 uses Qt printing subsystem which isn't probably so powerfull. KDEPrint will be back in 4.1. Anyway, as far as I can see it is possible to print to PDF file.

[Charlie.]

I can confirm, kdebase-meta is the metapackage you WANT to emerge. It contains everything you need. Remember to add the -gnome and -gtk flags if you don't want to waste time on millions of unnecessary gnome-related pacakges.

I added the "xcomposite" and "opengl" use-flags and did an emerge --deep --update --newuse world. This removed the message that said something about "composite must be compiled in" on the desktop effects settings-page and replaced it with a "xcomposite and xdamadge not available" message on the same page. I tried emerging xcomposite, it was already emerged, as was xdamadge. I did a revdep-rebuild just in case. No joy. Has anyone got the compositing effects working properly?

Before you ask, I'm running amd64, with fglrx. fglrxinfo says that ATI's driver is in use, glxgears runs without warnings @ about 3000fps and glxinfo | grep direct returns "yes", indicating that direct rendering is in use. I *do* have some AIGLX warnings in Xorg's log, those are a little worrying.

[Hagra]

I'm on an AMD64 laptop with an Intel gfx card. Desktop effects are working without any problems, and (IMO) look pretty good. I just miss my wobbly windows, although I'm sure someone will port it soon enough. (Oxygen icons & theme look very slick too IMO). Responsiveness seems better than 3.5, although I guess that's thanks to Qt4?

The only thing I think I'm going to miss is being able to expand items as a tree when in details view mode in konquror (now dolphin).

I notice there were comments saying KDE4 will be hardmasked until 4.1.0. May I ask what the prohibitive bugs are preventing 4.0.0 from being unmasked (after more testing obviously)? Am I just one of the lucky few who hasn't had it crash constantly or something? So far the only bug I've come accross is when I accidently entered the wrong root password when launching kuser - An error slid down making the password entry text edit slightly too small (purely cosmetic - I still has space to click in the box and re-enter).

BTW: I had to upgrade my kde3.5 to 3.5.8 (currently ~amd64) before I could emerge kde4. This is because kdelibs-4.0.0 blocked kdebase-startkde on 3.5.7-r1.

[Clete2]

There's also a tool called "autounmask" in portage.

You can use it to add everything needed for =kde-base/kdebase-meta-4.0.0 to /etc/portage/package.{keywords,unmask} for you.

:O This is an amazing tool! Thanks !

Why kdebase-meta? I just did kde...?

Edit: Trying "kde-base/kde-meta" instead.

[Hagra]

I notice there were comments saying KDE4 will be hardmasked until 4.1.0. May I ask what the prohibitive bugs are preventing 4.0.0 from being unmasked (after more testing obviously)?

Never mind - Should have read the whole thread!

[Clete2]

How do I unmerge *all* of kde-3.5.8? It wants to update it to kde-3.5.8-r1 whenever I run an 'emerge -uD world'

[CooSee]

How do I unmerge *all* of kde-3.5.8? It wants to update it to kde-3.5.8-r1 whenever I run an 'emerge -uD world'

http://genkdesvn.sourceforge.net/node/11

CooSee ' Ya

[Clete2]

How do I unmerge *all* of kde-3.5.8? It wants to update it to kde-3.5.8-r1 whenever I run an 'emerge -uD world'

http://genkdesvn.sourceforge.net/node/11

CooSee ' Ya

Brilliant, thanks! I modified that command a little bit:

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emerge unmerge pretend `find /var/db/pkg/kde-base/ -name "*3.*" -type d -exec basename {} \;`

Works great, thanks!

[Ray ishido]

Hi,

kdeutils crash at 94%

any idea?

Thanks

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Linking CXX shared module ../../lib/kded_kmilod.so
[ 94%] Built target kded_kmilod
make: *** [all] Erreur 2
 * 
 * ERROR: kde-base/kdeutils-4.0.0 failed.
 * Call stack:
 *               ebuild.sh, line   46:  Called src_compile
 *             environment, line 2462:  Called kde4-base_src_make
 *             environment, line 1833:  Called cmake-utils_src_make
 *             environment, line  636:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:
 *           emake "$@" || diefunc "$FUNCNAME" "$LINENO" "$?" "Make failed!";
 *  The die message:
 *   Make failed!
 * 
 * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant.
 * A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/kde-base/kdeutils-4.0.0/temp/build.log'.
 * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/kde-base/kdeutils-4.0.0/temp/environment'.
 * 

emerge --info

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localhost ray # emerge --info
Portage 2.1.4 (default-linux/x86/2006.1, gcc-4.2.2, glibc-2.7-r1, 2.6.23-gentoo i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.23-gentoo i686 Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2050 @ 1.60GHz
Timestamp of tree: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:17:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p33
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.3
dev-lang/python:     2.5.1-r5
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.10-r5
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.24
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.23-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=prescott -Os -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/4.0/env /usr/kde/4.0/share/config /usr/kde/4.0/shutdown /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=prescott -Os -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS=" ftp://mirror.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles ftp://gentoo.imj.fr/pub/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.gentoo.org/ ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo/ 		http://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/mirrors/gentoo"
LANG="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LINGUAS="fr"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/portage/local/layman/webapps-experimental"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X aac acpi aiglx alsa asf battery berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dri dvd dvdr encode exif ffmpeg fortran gdbm gif glitz gnome gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2 hal iconv isdnlog java javascript jpeg kdeenablefinal lirc mad midi mono mp3 mpeg mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nvidia opengl openmp pam pcre pda perl pic pmu png ppds pppd qt readline reflection reiserfs session smp spl sqlite sqlite3 sse sse2 ssl svg tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb wifi win32codecs x264 x86 xcomposite xml xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CAMERAS="ptp2" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse wacom evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="fr" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Yukimura]

Hello all kde4 fans!

I'd like to try out kde4 and I have no idea what I have to put in package.keywords so I can emerge kde4. I'd be very happy if someone would pleas tell me what the hack I have to do to get kde4 working.


Kind regards

[mark_alec]

I'd like to try out kde4 and I have no idea what I have to put in package.keywords so I can emerge kde4. I'd be very happy if someone would pleas tell me what the hack I have to do to get kde4 working.

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/kde/kde4.xml

[Yukimura]

mark_alec thank you very much, just what I've been looking for.

Kind regards.

[Yukimura]

And now comes the problem...

When I want to install kdebase-meta I get this error:

# emerge -av openexr

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild N ] media-libs/openexr-1.4.0a USE="doc examples opengl" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" 9,447 kB
[blocks B ] <media-libs/openexr-1.5.0 (is blocking media-libs/ilmbase-1.0.1)

Total: 1 package (1 new, 1 block), Size of downloads: 9,447 kB

!!! Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be installed
!!! at the same time on the same system.

For more information about Blocked Packages, please refer to the following
section of the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook (architecture is irrelevant):

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/h ... =1#blocked

But then:

# emerge -Ca openexr

>>> These are the packages that would be unmerged:

--- Couldn't find 'openexr' to unmerge.

>>> No packages selected for removal by unmerge

And look at this:

# eix openexr
* media-gfx/openexr_viewers
Available versions: ~1.0.0 ~1.0.1 {doc opengl video_cards_nvidia}
Homepage: http://openexr.com/
Description: OpenEXR Viewers

* media-libs/openexr
Available versions: 1.2.2-r2 1.4.0a ~1.6.0 ~1.6.1 {doc examples opengl video_cards_nvidia}
Homepage: http://openexr.com/
Description: ILM's OpenEXR high dynamic-range image file format libraries

* media-libs/openexr_ctl
Available versions: ~1.0.0 ~1.0.1
Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ampasctl
Description: OpenEXR CTL libraries

Found 3 matches.

So there is no openexr installed and yet my kdebase-meta is blocked by openexr-1.5.0. Anyone know the way out of this funny block?

Kind regards.

[Mickael]

the problem is here : [blocks B ] <media-libs/openexr-1.5.0 (is blocking media-libs/ilmbase-1.0.1) you have probably media-libs/ilmbase-1.0.1 which is installed and you cannot have both because kde4 meta wants to install openxr

[anthrax_]

I got problem, i want to change oxygen icon theme to another (DarkGlass ), but when i choose another theme i got still oxygen icons . Did anybody know how to solve that?

[Veldrin]

[blocks B ] <media-libs/openexr-1.5.0 (is blocking media-libs/ilmbase-1.0.1)

upgrade >=openexr-1.5... 1.6.0 and 1.6.1 are in portage

Note: you want to mess with masked packages, then you have to accept, that certain packages come from the "unstable" branch.

just my .02$
V.

[Kariddi]

Hi,

I have 2 problems with KDE 4 desktop effects.

1) In exposè the title of the windows is not shown (there's just a black rectangle in the center of the window, but there's no name written in it)

2) The taskbar window preview is blank (The window preview is not shown. The tooltip is bigger when the effect is active , but there's no image)

Sometimes also KDE starts black when desktop effects are on.

Advices on these problems?

Thanks

Marcello

[Clete2]

I'd like to try out kde4 and I have no idea what I have to put in package.keywords so I can emerge kde4. I'd be very happy if someone would pleas tell me what the hack I have to do to get kde4 working.

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/kde/kde4.xml

Good job with the FAQ, Mark. It answered a lot of my questions.

[Yukimura]

Thanks Veldrin & Mickael...After 5 minutes of installing and uninstalling it worked.

I'll be keeping kde3.5 just in case something goes terribly wrong with kde4.

Kind regards.

[ggaaron]

How do I autostart programs in kde4? I've found that .kde/Autostart folder moved to .kde/share/autostart but I've put some scripts there and they have no effects=( It worked for kde3.5, someone knows what is the new way of doing this?

Thanks in advance.
Aaron

[Veldrin]

are those scripts executable (i.e chmod +x <some script>)

[ggaaron]

Yes, they are, I can run them manually with ./scriptname.

[Kollin]

unmasked, installed, tryed, masked, removed.

I`ll wait till it`s at least ~ or may be even 4.1

[scan2006]

So I tried to emerge kdebase-meta,
but i got an error from 'strigi-0.5.7':

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 ERROR: app-misc/strigi-0.5.7 failed.
 * Call stack:
 *             ebuild.sh, line 1717:  Called dyn_setup
 *             ebuild.sh, line  768:  Called qa_call 'pkg_setup'
 *             ebuild.sh, line   44:  Called pkg_setup
 *   strigi-0.5.7.ebuild, line   48:  Called built_with_use 'x11-libs/qt:4' 'dbus'
 *         eutils.eclass, line 1694:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:
 *                                      die)   die "$PKG does not actually support the $1 USE flag!";;
 *  The die message:
 *   x11-libs/qt-4.4.0_rc1 does not actually support the dbus USE flag!

Removing 'dbus' flag has take no effect.
Is there any possibility to avoid this error?
Because I am stuck at the moment, and I cannot emerge further packages.
Please help.

qt-4.4 won't be supported until kde 4.1 so you have to build with qt-4.3.x right now.

I have the same problem. Can you please explain how to build with qt-4.3.x? now that I have qt-4.4 ? I'm very new to gentoo and maybe I'm going about this wrong but what I tried was to unmerge qt-4.4 then mask it then merge qt-4.3 and it kept going back to qt-4.4 (maybe I'm not masking it right?) but anyways if someone could explain in a little detail I sure would appreciate it.

[Lori]

I have the same problem. Can you please explain how to build with qt-4.3.x? now that I have qt-4.4 ? I'm very new to gentoo and maybe I'm going about this wrong but what I tried was to unmerge qt-4.4 then mask it then merge qt-4.3 and it kept going back to qt-4.4 (maybe I'm not masking it right?) but anyways if someone could explain in a little detail I sure would appreciate it.

It's actually quite simple. Don not unmask qt-4.4. Qt-4.3 is available. You only need to add keyword it, because currect stable version is 4.3.2-r1, and you need 4.3.3. So what you need to do is:

1) add the following line to /etc/portage/package.keywords:

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x11-libs/qt:4

2) remove the same line from /etc/portage/package.unmask

3) emerge -uDNav world