[Kstars-devel] Installing from svn

Akarsh Simha akarshsimha at gmail.com
Wed Jun 30 18:47:46 CEST 2010


On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 09:39:47AM -0700, Daniel-Marian Baboiu wrote:
> I just started to look in the code, and I have some questions about
> installing from svn.
> 
> The problem is that the instructions for installing are rather old
> (2008, I think) and also require installing the trunk of KDE4 and
> kdelibs, as well as Qt 4.2. Are these requirements still valid? My Linux
> already has KDE4 (4.0.4, to be precise) and Qt 4.4.0 (will upgrade to
> latest stable in 2-3 weeks, but not for now).

Kind of. The most well documented way of building KStars from svn is
to build trunk of KDE4. You needn't build Qt, though.

There should be a way around this, but there's no documentation.

Regards
Akarsh


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