I just installed CentOS 7 (Gnome desktop), and I wanted to install KAddressBook. I downloaded and installed KDEPIM using yum with no problems, but I still don't have KAddressBook. Is it no longer included in KDEPIM? "yum install kaddressbook" doesn't find anything. Thanks in advance to all who respond.

if you run in Konsole the following does "/usr/bin/kaddress" show in the results?

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 rpm -ql | grep kaddressbook

if you open kontact or korganizer is there a contacts section? if I run kadressbook then Kontact opens in the contacts section

is there the binary /usr/bin/kaddressbook?

of course I'm running 4.14.x so things might have changed

Thanks for the suggestions. Does this tell you anything useful?

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# yum install kdepim
Package kdepim-4.10.5-4.el7.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Nothing to do
# yum install kaddressbook
No package kaddressbook available.
Error: Nothing to do
# rpm -qa * | grep kaddressbook
# ls /usr/bin/kaddressbook
ls: cannot access /usr/bin/kaddressbook: No such file or directory


google01103 wrote:if you run in Konsole the following does "/usr/bin/kaddress" show in the results?

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 rpm -ql | grep kaddressbook

if you open kontact or korganizer is there a contacts section? if I run kadressbook then Kontact opens in the contacts section

is there the binary /usr/bin/kaddressbook?

of course I'm running 4.14.x so things might have changed

sorry but no, only that it's not where I would have thought it, in my distro I have a Kaddress rpm but different distros package things differently

Google'ing didn't show anything but your post on the CentOS forum

as CentOS is repackaged RedHat I'd suggest posting on the RedHat forum

if you find it, and its gotta be somewhere, please post it here for reference

Post directly on the CentOS forums, people there may be able to help.

I had the same idea, but the responses weren't what I had hoped for. Thanks for the suggestion, though. The thread is here: http://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=49522

einar wrote:Post directly on the CentOS forums, people there may be able to help.

since CentOS is a rebadged RedHat I'd also look/post there and considering the 1 reply on CentOS you should consider a bug report if one not was not already submitted

RHEL and CentOS only ship KOrganizer by default. If you want the rest of KDE PIM, you need to enable EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) repository - check https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL for details.

Progdan,

Thanks for the information. I successfully enabled the EPEL repository (epel-release-7-2.noarch) , but I still can't find kaddressbook. "yum install kaddressbook" doesn't find anything, and "yum provides kaddressbook" is no better. Is there something else I should be trying?

progdan wrote:RHEL and CentOS only ship KOrganizer by default. If you want the rest of KDE PIM, you need to enable EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) repository - check https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL for details.

Bah, you are right, sorry. Full KDE for CentOS/RHEL was always available from kde-redhat project (http://apt.kde-redhat.org/kde-redhat/), which however does not feature RHEL 7/CentOS 7 packages (only for 6 and older).

The only option I'm currently aware of is using Rex's COPR: https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/rdieter/kde4/, which contains latest KDE 4 packages (KDE 4.14) built against RHEL 7 and EPEL 7 (i.e. compatible with CentOS 7).

progdan wrote:The only option I'm currently aware of is using Rex's COPR: https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/rdieter/kde4/, which contains latest KDE 4 packages (KDE 4.14) built against RHEL 7 and EPEL 7 (i.e. compatible with CentOS 7).

I'm finally getting back to this -- my apologies for taking so long to thank you for your response. This weekend I installed the rdieter repo and tried to install KDE, but it failed because it had a dependency for a package "spambayes". I found an rpm for this and installed it (it seems to just be a bunch of python scripts), but the KDE install still failed. Is there any way to modify the repo to remove the dependency on spambayes? Again, my apologies for taking so long to get back to you on this, and thanks for your help.

I wanted to update this thread with some good news. I tried installing kaddressbook again this weekend from the rdieter kde4 repo, and the latest version installed successfully. Apparently the dependency on spambayes is no longer present. Thanks again to progdan for the lead, and thanks to Rex(?) for updating the repo.

I am using CentOS 7.2 and had trouble installing KaddressBook so I wanted to put some of the steps I used to successfully install it. Sorry if a step or two is missing but I had to backtrack several times due to running into dead ends which did not work, so it could be that something I did was a prerequisit that I am not aware of now.

to see which version of redhat you are using:
cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS Linux release 7.2.1511 (Core)



https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/rdieter/kde4/


tried to install the repository using step 1,2 and 3 but it did not work:

https://fedorahosted.org/copr/wiki/HowToEnableRepo




This page helped alot and I think it was the most helpful:
https://access.redhat.com/documentation ... ories.html


finally I downloaded this rpm and installed it:
https://www.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/ ... lugin-copr

then
# yum update
installed kde and applications were available.

I hope this helps someone to perform the installation in less time than it took me.