Building and installing KDE Connect from source

[rajpratim Bhattacharya]

I mean build KDE connect.

On Mar 6, 2017 1:58 AM, "Albert Vaca" <albertvaka at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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