Building and installing KDE Connect from source

[Albert Vaca]

apt install kdeconnect

On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 3:43 PM, rajpratim Bhattacharya <
rajpratim1234 at gmail.com> wrote:

> is there a way to Install kdeconeect in Ubuntu?
>
> On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 7:09 PM, Albert Vaca <albertvaka at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> You probably installed it in the wrong place.
>>
>> First go to the build directory and do "sudo make uninstall".
>>
>> Then run "ccmake .." to open the cmake curses interface. There change
>> CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX to "/usr" and KDE_INSTALL_USE_QT_SYS_PATHS to "OFF" and
>> run make and make install again.
>>
>> Note that you are installing it as root, and overriding the files your
>> distro already have installed. It is thus a good idea, to remove the distro
>> kdeconnect package if you had it installed before installing it this way,
>> and always do "make uninstall" before going back to the distro packages.
>> Otherwise you will end up with a mix of both versions that will most likely
>> not work.
>>
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