[Kstars-devel] Installing from svn

[Médéric Boquien]

Hello,

On Wednesday 30 June 2010 12:47:46 Akarsh Simha wrote:
> 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.

I guess the simplest way is to use kdesvnbuild. http://kdesvn-build.kde.org/ . 
However i urge you to update your distribution. I think Qt 4.6 is now needed. 
It is likely that you are going to run into problems because your packages are 
too old.

Médéric