[Kmymoney-devel] build question - how to have two two versions at the same time

[Thomas Baumgart]

Hi,

on Monday 02 August 2010 04:06:31 Alvaro Soliverez wrote:

> You can't play this trick if you want to run 2 similar versions
> together (eg. 3.98.1 and SVN)
> In that case, you have to uninstall and install the one you want to use.

From http://techbase.kde.org/Development/FAQs/Technical_FAQ :

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If want to install your application privately, configure it with another 
prefix: for $HOME/kdeprefix, use configure --prefix=$HOME/kdeprefix. Then let 
KDE know about this prefix: set KDEDIRS to $HOME/kdeprefix:$KDEDIR. To make 
KDE aware of new prefixes, one can also edit /etc/kderc and add

[Directories]
prefixes=/the/new/prefix

but this doesn't answer this specific question ;-) Make sure to run 
"kbuildsycoca" after setting the new KDEDIRS. 

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Then configure your SVN build environment to install in $HOME/kdeprefix. Make 
sure to set the USE_QT_DESIGNER to OFF. Then you can even use 'make install' 
w/o the need for sudo or being root.

The above mentioned kbuildsycoca should be the KDE4 version which here on my 
box (openSUSE) is called kbuildsycoca4.

I have tried the basic mechanic of this and it works. In case you want to run 
the tar-ball version installed in the regular path simply set the KDEDIR 
variable to the old value and run kbuildsycoca again. I have not checked which 
plugins and overlays are used if KDEDIR points to the new directory.

If you have something working, it would be cool if you can share the 
instructions on the community page at http://community.kde.org/KMyMoney. We 
are also happy to drop anything for you.


> 
> On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 10:33 PM, Brendan Coupe <brendan at coupeware.com> 
wrote:
> > I'm running KMM 1.0.5 from the Fedora repositories (because I can't get
> > the CVS version to compile in Fedora 13) and the SVN version (3.98.x) on
> > the same computer. This also works with the CVS version and the SVN
> > version (I did this in Fedora 12).
> > The trick is to install KMM 1 first, then install KMM 3.98.
> > To run KMM 1: /usr/bin/kmymoney2
> > To run KMM 3.98: /usr/bin/kmymoney
> > I think KMM 1 creates a sym link /usr/bin/kmymoney that points
> > at /usr/bin/kmymoney2 which gets replaced with a binary when you install
> > KKM 3.98.
> > ----
> > Brendan
> >
> > On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Jack <ostroffjh at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> >> Hello all,
> >>
> >> I would really love to be able to have two different versions of KMM
> >> "installed" at the same time.  I use the quotes because I what I really
> >> want is to have the distro provided version actually installed, but be
> >> able to compile and run one or more other versions - such as the latest
> >> svn.  I know you can actually run kmymoney/kmymoney from within the
> >> build directory, but without doing the "make install" many of the
> >> necessary files won't be found, so you either don't have them or you
> >> get the ones from the real installed version.
> >>
> >> I assume this isn't really a KMM problem specifically, but a more
> >> general KDE issue.  Does anybody know if this has been addressed or if
> >> there are any suggested approaches?  I know I could set up virtual
> >> machines, but it seems like a lot of overhead.  I wonder if I could set
> >> it up with a chroot environment, but there is enough I'm not sure about
> >> that I haven't bothered trying yet.
> >>
> >> Thanks for any ideas, including where in the KDE forums or mailing
> >> lists would be a better place to discuss this.
> >>
> >> Jack
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
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> >
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