KDE4 build questions

[Billy]

Hey Joe, I overlooked that detail. I'm actually on KDE 5, so it will probably 
be different for you. My apologies!

Billy

On Sunday, June 19, 2016 08:12:34 PM Joe Pearson wrote:
> Thanks Billy
> I had looked at that page and not followed all of it because it seems to
> be for KDE 5.
> I was able to cmake and make extra-cmake-modules from the link you gave
> - but it gave messages about optional packages missing, in particular
> Qt5Core. And paying careful heed to the warning about 'make install' as
> root not always being reversible, I'm going to proceed cautiously. Are
> you on KDE 4?
> 
> Joe
> 
> On 19/06/16 19:32, Billy wrote:
> > Hi Joe,
> > 
> > I'm a newbie to this too, and ran into the same error. I took a look at
> > the
> > KDE build guide though:
> > https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Build_from_source
> > 
> > It looks like you can get it from the extra-cmake-modules package though:
> > 
> > apt-get install extra-cmake-modules
> > 
> > I'm on openSUSE though, so not sure if that's accurate. It looks like you
> > can get it from source though too:
> > 
> > http://superuser.com/a/912259
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Billy
> > 
> > On Sunday, June 19, 2016 07:14:36 PM Joe Pearson wrote:
> >> Hello KDE Connect dev community!
> >> I'm a beginner at this although I have a bit of experience in Java,
> >> Python, Perl and some slightly older languages.
> >> But not with cmake...
> >> 
> >> I'm trying to build kdeconnect-kde on Kubuntu 14.04 (Qt 4.8.6 KDE
> >> 4.13.3). I grabbed the source via
> >> git clone git://anongit.kde.org/kdeconnect-kde.git
> >> But I'm getting cmake errors:
> >> 
> >> Could not find a package configuration file provided by "ECM" (requested
> >> 
> >> version 0.0.9) with any of the following names:
> >>       ECMConfig.cmake
> >>       ecm-config.cmake
> >> 
> >> There's no package matching ECM in the repositories and a web search
> >> suggests it's a KDE 5 thing.
> >> 
> >> What should I be looking at to resolve this?
> >> 
> >> Thanks!
> >> joe
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