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[Jason Harris]

Hi Trenton,

You will at least need Qt4 and kdelibs from trunk ("HEAD" is a cvs term).
You do not have to work in the kde4 desktop.  However, there are some things 
to keep in mind:

1. You should obviously not install Qt4 and kdelibs4 over your existing KDE 
installation.  I installed my 4 stuff in "/home/jharris/qt4" and 
"/home/jharris/kde4".

2. Once you have installed Qt4 and kdelibs-4, before you try compiling 
something from trunk, you have to set some environment variables.  I suggest 
you pick a konsole window to work in and enter the following (which will 
leave the rest of your running KDE3 session intact):
% export QTDIR=/home/jharris/qt4
% export KDEDIR=/home/jharris/kde4
% export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$QTDIR/lib:$KDEDIR/lib

3. If you run a kde4 application from your kde3 session, you'll note that 
kdeinit-3 is stopped, and kdeinit-4 is started.  Thereafter, the kde3 session 
will be extremely confused and half-broken, but you can just execute 
"kdeinit" in a konsole (not the konsole you used for kde4 compiling) to fix 
it.

Hmm, I seem to remember a fourth env variable to be set, but I am not 
currently at my home box, so I can't check.  I'll post again if I think of 
it.

hope it helps,
Jason

On Wednesday 28 September 2005 05:20 am, Trenton Carr wrote:
> Hello all
>
> I want to start porting KMathTool to kde4. Do I need svn HEAD to do this
> or can I work in my KDE3.4.2? Dial-up will make HEAD tricky for me. If so
> how do I go about it. I looked for some docs but found none.
>
> Regards
>
> Trenton

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