KDE 4.

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Thursday 21 July 2011 Jul, John Culleton wrote:

> 
> All but one of my favorite apps also followed suit, at 
> least to the point that they used Qt4. So I didn't have 
> much choice if I wished to keep up with the latest apps. 
> Krita is a good example. I use Krita 2.3.3. That is what 
> comes with Slackware 13.37. Other apps, like Scribus or 
> Gimp, are not married to KDE so that I can upgrade them 
> as needed from svn and nightly if useful. AFAIK Krita 
> doesn't offer me that degree of independence. You have to 
> upgrade the entire KDE package, a huge undertaking.

That actually shouldn't be a problem: we try to take great care that Krita compiles against released versions of Qt and KDE. There haven't been any significant version bumps of Krita's requirements since 2.3.0 -- and if there are, we need to know so we can allow for compilation with an older KDE and Qt. When Krita 2.4.0 is released, however, we will likely have Qt 4.8.0 as the minimum requirement.

But for now, you can get calligra from git and follow the instructions on 

http://community.kde.org/Calligra/Building/Building_Calligra

(you need to be very precise following those instructions -- it's complex bit of software)

or use Kubuntiac's easy script -- but that doesn't work on Slackware, most likely. Or at least, nobody has probably tried it, so reports are welcome.

In short: you should be able to compile Krita from git without having to upgrade anything.

-- 
Boudewijn Rempt
http://www.valdyas.org, http://www.krita.org, http://www.boudewijnrempt.nl