<html><head></head><body><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div>Cool! I was able to run the AppImage so perhaps I can avoid the pain of building it.</div><div><br></div><div>Are there any differences/limitations when using the AppImage version as opposed to using a regularly built binary?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Nick</div><div><br></div>
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On Thursday, September 7, 2017, 8:33:50 AM PDT, Kevin Funk <kfunk@kde.org> wrote:
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<div><div dir="ltr">On Thursday, 7 September 2017 16:51:02 CEST Nick Savoiu wrote:<br clear="none">> HI Kevin, yes; I've built KDE/KDevelop before. Will the AppImage need any<br clear="none">> other libraries (KF5, etc)? Nick<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Nope, it's completely self-contained. Just try.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">If you want to build from source (to fix issues or just for fun), then please <br clear="none">check out Craft and get in touch with us:<br clear="none"> <a shape="rect" href="https://www.kdevelop.org/contribute-kdevelop" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.kdevelop.org/contribute-kdevelop</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Regards,<div class="ydpf275d345yqt2823507687" id="ydpf275d345yqtfd38063"><br clear="none">Kevin<br clear="none"> <br clear="none">> On Thursday, September 7, 2017, 12:12:12 AM PDT, Kevin Funk<br clear="none">> <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:kfunk@kde.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">kfunk@kde.org</a>> wrote:<br clear="none">> On Thursday, 7 September 2017 01:51:27 CEST Nick Savoiu wrote:<br clear="none">> > Hi all, I poked around the mailing list archive but did not see anything<br clear="none">> > on<br clear="none">> > this topic (not easy to search) I'm moving from Centos 5.9 to Centos 6.6<br clear="none">> > and want to continue running KDevelop on it.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Did you build KDevelop yourself before? Anyhow, the latest version of<br clear="none">> KDevelop (5.1.2 at this point) should be good to go for this distro.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> The easiest and quickest solution would be to go with the AppImage we<br clear="none">> provide: <a shape="rect" href="https://www.kdevelop.org/download" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.kdevelop.org/download</a><br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Just download, make it executable, run.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> > What's a good version for it<br clear="none">> > (including building from scratch)? I've looked at KF5 and QT5 but they<br clear="none">> > seem<br clear="none">> > to be hard to build/install on Centos 6.6.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> For compiling yourself (if you really want to):<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> If there are no packages for KF5/Qt5 for that system I'd recommend trying<br clear="none">> Craft (a user space package manager) for building all the dependencies on<br clear="none">> your system:<br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" href="https://community.kde.org/Craft" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://community.kde.org/Craft</a><br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> We're still lacking documentation how to install Craft on Linux, but you can<br clear="none">> follow the instructions for macOS at this point.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> After setup, all you need to do is:<br clear="none">> craft kdevelop<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> I've never tested it on CentOS myself, but it's worth trying. If you<br clear="none">> experience any problems please join the #kdevelop IRC channel on Freenode<br clear="none">> and we can try to help.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> > Would a KDevelop 4.x be easy to<br clear="none">> > build?<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Definitely not, I wouldn't go that route.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> Regards,<br clear="none">> Kevin<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> > Thanks,Nick<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">-- <br clear="none">Kevin Funk | <a shape="rect" href="mailto:kfunk@kde.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">kfunk@kde.org</a> | <a shape="rect" href="http://kfunk.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://kfunk.org</a></div></div></div>
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