[kde-linux] Time Zone settings etc.

[James Tyrer]

Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 February 2010 12:37:31 you wrote:
>> IIUC, KDE is switching from the old PolicyKit to the new PolKit.  So,
>> for now, you probably need the Qt and KDE bindings for both of 
> them.  To
>> install both of these, you should have this list of stuff installed:
>>
>> DBus
>> DBus-Glib
>> HAL
>> HAL-Info
>> PolicyKit
>> EggDBus
>> polkit
>> ConsoleKit
>>
> Hi James,
> 
> OK.nearly everything built OK. However, polkit-qt-1 is still missing one:
> -------------------------
> --   package 'polkit-agent-1>=0.95' not found
> CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindPkgConfig.cmake:259 
> (message):
>   A required package was not found
> ------------------------
> 
You are going to have to upgrade to: "polkit-0.96"

http://hal.freedesktop.org/releases/polkit-0.96.tar.gz

And I will note this in the instructions.

> Do I need also polkit-qt-1 ? And after all, how am I supposed to adquire 
> administrator rights with that ? Remember, the only think I need, is to 
> change the timezone in the settings menue ;-)
> 
If this works, you should then be able to go to: "SystemSettings ->
Advanced -> PolicyKit Authorization" and give yourself the necessary
authority.

> But thank you very much for the hints, I think I am slowly comming to 
> the end of the tunnel.
> 
> Cheers, 
> Edgar
> 
> PS.. could you build  FFMPEG and Strigi ?

Didn't try it yet.

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> Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers
> 


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James Tyrer

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