I've been trying to install the development version of KDE 4 on a Debian sid installation. I get through installing kdesupport just fine, but when I try to install kdelibs I get this:

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kde-devel@bo:~/kde/src/KDE/kdelibs$ cmakekde
-- Found Qt-Version 4.6.2 (using /home/kde-devel/qt-kde/bin/qmake)
-- Found X11: /usr/lib/libX11.so                                 
-- Building kdelibs...                                           
-- Phonon includes NOT found!                                     
-- Phonon library NOT found!                                     
CMake Error at cmake/modules/FindPhonon.cmake:63 (message):       
  Phonon library or includes NOT found!                           
Call Stack (most recent call first):                             
  cmake/modules/FindKDE4Internal.cmake:615 (find_package)         
  CMakeLists.txt:36 (find_package)                               


-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
kde-devel@bo:~/kde/src/KDE/kdelibs$ cmakekde               
-- Found Qt-Version 4.6.2 (using /home/kde-devel/qt-kde/bin/qmake)
-- Found X11: /usr/lib/libX11.so                                 
-- Building kdelibs...                                           
-- Phonon includes NOT found!                                     
-- Phonon library NOT found!                                     
CMake Error at cmake/modules/FindPhonon.cmake:63 (message):       
  Phonon library or includes NOT found!                           
Call Stack (most recent call first):                             
  cmake/modules/FindKDE4Internal.cmake:615 (find_package)         
  CMakeLists.txt:36 (find_package)                               


-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.


This happens whether I do it manually or with kdesvn-build. I've been fighting with this for two days. What do I need to do?

Thanks!

Assuming you are trying to build from Trunk, Phonon has recently moved to Git. As a result, it now must be built seperately. You can find some instructions, along with a link to the repo in phonon/README in the kdesupport/ checkout.

You, sir, are a scholar and a gentlemen.

It worked great, but I now have another problem. I've followed the instructions here:

http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started ... evelopment

For adding the newly installed desktop to the login menu, but it doesn't appear there. Can anyone walk me through this?

2handband wrote:It worked great, but I now have another problem. I've followed the instructions here:

http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started ... evelopment

For adding the newly installed desktop to the login menu, but it doesn't appear there. Can anyone walk me through this?

Which instructions exactly? I usually add a .desktop file to `kde4-config --prefix`/share/apps/kdm/sessions/, which corresponds to /usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions/ (or rather, I copy the existing kde.desktop one and edit it). This assuming that you use KDM as you login manager.

Note that if you use a kde-devel user with special paths, the command kde4-config --prefix will return the path to your trunk installation. Most of the time you want to use your stable version of KDM, so do something like this with your normal user (this will most likely require root privileges, so use su, sudo or something similar):

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cd `kde4-config --prefix`/share/apps/kdm/sessions/ # use kde-config if you're on KDE SC 3.x
cp kde.desktop kdetrunk.desktop
<your favorite editor> kdetrunk.desktop

I'm feeling increasingly out of my depth. On my Debian box those files are in /usr/share/xsessions. As per the instructions on the setup page I copied the kde.desktop file to a new one called kde4.desktop. I then modified it according to the instructions. Here it is:

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[Desktop Entry]                                               
Encoding=UTF-8                                               
Type=XSession                                                 
Exec=$HOME/kde/bin/startkde                                   
TryExec=$HOME/kde/bin/startkde                               
Name=KDE4                                                     
Name[hi]=कडीई                                                 
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Did I do something wrong?

@2handband

I think you didn't read this line in the documentation:

"Replace $HOME/kde in the example above with the prefix you are installing KDE4 into"

You should correct your Exec and TryExec lines according to it

Regards,

Kolia

Okay, I'm really embarrassed to admit this... but I'm not sure what to substitute there.

Where did you install this development version of KDE?

Probably in /home/<yourusername>/kde ?

Yeah.

So does it work to replace:
$HOME/kde/bin/startkde

by
/home/<yourusernmame>/kde/bin/startkde

in the Exec and TryExec lines?

That worked; I am now officially walking on the bleeding edge! Thanks. I'm going to take a few days to familiarize myself with it, then I'm hoping to start contributing to KDE documentation.

One more question guys... I was thinking of compiling and installing the stable version for another computer. Is there a reason the directions for installing stable are so much harder to follow than the directions for trunk?? I'm still trying to make sense of them.

Installing Stable should be no harder than trunk. Just checkout from /branches/KDE/<version>/<module> instead of /trunk/KDE/<module>/

So... follow the directions for trunk, and just substitute the appropriate checkout site? If that's what you're saying it would be a real help; the directions for stable are pretty badly written compared to those for trunk.