john@wexfordpress.com wrote:
> I want to upgrade to KDE 4 so that I can use the latest Krita. What is
> the least bloody and disruptive way to do the KDE upgrade on a
> standard Slack 12 distro?

You do *not* want to upgrade to KDE 4; its definitely not ready for
prime time yet. You might want to try a KDE4 live CD first, to test
drive Krita before going through the trouble of installing it.

Here's how I'd upgrade Krita:
- pick a nonstandard directory such as /opt/kde4
- add /opt/kde4/bin to PATH
- add /opt/kde4/lib to LD_LIBRARY_PATH
- compile qt4, kdelibs, koffice libs, and krits; installing each to
/opt/kde4
- use KDE3 (or another window manager) to start Krita

You could put everything in /usr/local instead of /opt/kde4; but two
years from now, when Slack 12+X comes out with KDE4, it will be much
simpler to blow away this nonstandard directory than to ferret it out
from /usr/local. With /opt/kde4, its also easier to make one monster
kde4-krita.tgz for installing on other computers (just tar up the
whole directory).

- Daniel

john@wexfordpress.com wrote:

> I want to upgrade to KDE 4 so that I can use the latest Krita. What is
> the least bloody and disruptive way to do the KDE upgrade on a
> standard Slack 12 distro?

I have not done this but I believe you have to compile the whole thing.

1) Do some research first

http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Build/FAQ
http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Build/KDE4

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...are-12-606956/
http://www.linuxpackages.net/pkg_details.php?id=11363

2) Backup anything important before you begin

3) You might want to do this on a test system and not a working system.

Richard James

john@wexfordpress.com wrote:

> I want to upgrade to KDE 4 so that I can use the latest Krita. What is
> the least bloody and disruptive way to do the KDE upgrade on a
> standard Slack 12 distro?

Latest stable is 1.6.3 which I am using now on the default KDE version on
Slack 12. I downloaded and built the latest version of koffice which from
memory was painless.

Pete

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http://www.petezilla.co.uk

On 2007-12-15, john@wexfordpress.com wrote:
> I want to upgrade to KDE 4 so that I can use the latest Krita. What is
> the least bloody and disruptive way to do the KDE upgrade on a
> standard Slack 12 distro?


From what I can tell so far, there isn't one.

I'm not going to make any promises that I'll finish, but I'm currently
working on kde-3.97 (4.0rc2). I just finished up the minimum deps
required for it (there are at least ten of them that aren't found in
stock Slackware -current), and while kdelibs is 47% done at the moment,
there's no guarantee that I have all of them.

Long story short, if/when I finish, the packages will be for -current
systems only, and even so, there's no guarantee that I'll make them
available publicly -- unless I'm pretty sure the resulting packages
work exactly as they're intended, this will likely be the last you
hear of them :-)

-RW