Building and installing KDE Connect from source

[Albert Vaca]

See the first email of this tread.

On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 9:28 PM, rajpratim Bhattacharya <
rajpratim1234 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kdeconnect/attachments/20170305/5080b831/attachment-0001.html>