Hi guys, I want to build a linux distribution based on kde 4.3 and I'm looking for a spreadsheet with all the dependencies for each kde application (dolphin, koffice, arora etc etc) o something like that .Does anybody know if such kind of documentation exist?

Maybe these links can help you:

• http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Build/KDE4#Required_packages_from_your_distribution
• http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Build/KDE4/LFS

thanks it helped

is there also a dependency table like this one for xfce:
http://www.xfce.org/documentation/requirements

??

Unfortunately no such dependency table exists. You can however look in the output of CMake when configuring KDESupport, KDELibs, etc. and install the packages it requires.

Qt4 development packages are a minimum requirement.

I'm far from an expert at all this (see viewtopic.php?f=64&t=79832), but in case it helps: here's my list of aptitude/wget commands for the prerequisites of KDE 4.3.x / SVN trunk on Ubuntu Hardy 8.04.

APT packages - see the Ubuntu Hardy package repository on the web for detailed versions for each one.

sudo aptitude install kdesdk-scripts libboost-dev libbz2-dev libglib2.0-dev
sudo aptitude install libqt4-dev dbus-x11 libstreamanalyzer-dev libstrigiqtdbusclient-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libgif-dev libpcre3-dev
libjpeg62-dev libdbus-1-dev
sudo aptitude install libboost-dev libboost-program-options-dev libboost-graph-dev libgpgme11-dev libical-dev

Non-APT packages:

wget http://freedesktop.org/~hadess/shared-m ... 30.tar.bz2 (source)
wget http://www.cmake.org/files/v2.6/cmake-2 ... 386.tar.gz (Binary download)

I believe all these prereqs are working fine, and I've built qt4 (qt-copy), qca and kdesupport from SVN trunk with these, under a kde-devel user based on the KDE Getting Started Guide. Everything is under ~kde-devel including cmake, qt4 and kde binaries - helps keep your environment clean.

I'm not using the distro's Qt or qca (QCA2) as the KDE in-tree versions appear better for me.

I'm using kdesvn-build which I strongly recommend, see techbase for details. SVN version of this tool is probably slightly better, it includes module to build your own qca which should be under ~/kde/src.

A couple of less obvious links:

http://djdarkmanx.blogspot.com/2008/11/ ... buntu.html - list of dependencies in here

http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started ... and_Debian - segmented by package, which may be what you want.