[Kstars-devel] Problems with getting the frameworks branch of KStars to run on my Fedora 20 system

[Samikshan Bairagya]

Hi all,

I have been trying to get frameworks branch to run on my Fedora 20 system for a
long time now and I'm still failing.

To start off I followed [1] [2] to download kf-* packages on my
system. The cmake
and 'make' step works, but the make install step fails with the following error:

-- Installing: /home/sbairagy/kde/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/./kstars.png
-- Installing: /home/sbairagy/kde/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/./kstars.png
-- Installing: /home/sbairagy/kde/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/./kstars.png
-- Installing: /home/sbairagy/kde/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/./kstars.svgz
-- Installing: /home/sbairagy/kde/usr/share/applications/kde4/kstars.desktop
-- Installing: /home/sbairagy/kde/usr/share/config.kcfg/kstars.kcfg
-- Installing: /home/sbairagy/kde/usr/share/config/kstars.knsrc
CMake Error at kstars/cmake_install.cmake:190 (FILE):
  file cannot create directory: /kstars.  Maybe need administrative
  privileges.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  cmake_install.cmake:50 (INCLUDE)


make: *** [install] Error 1

The error occurs while trying to install the kstarsui.rc file. From
line numbers 190
and 50 in kstars/cmake_install.cmake and cmake_install.cmake it is obvious that
the KXMLGUI_INSTALL_DIR is not set to the correct path.

To resolve the above problem I tried setting the environment variable
manually as
shown in the diff below:

diff --git a/kstars/CMakeLists.txt b/kstars/CMakeLists.txt
index e33c83a..96968ad 100644
--- a/kstars/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/kstars/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -529,12 +529,12 @@ install( PROGRAMS kstars.desktop  DESTINATION
${XDG_APPS_INSTALL_DIR} )
 install( FILES kstars.kcfg  DESTINATION  ${KCFG_INSTALL_DIR} )
 install( FILES kstars.knsrc  DESTINATION  ${CONFIG_INSTALL_DIR} )
 if (INDI_FOUND)
-install( FILES kstarsui-indi.rc DESTINATION
${KXMLGUI_INSTALL_DIR}/kstars RENAME kstarsui.rc)
+install( FILES kstarsui-indi.rc DESTINATION
/home/sbairagy/kde/usr/share/kxmlgui5/kstars RENAME kstarsui.rc)
 else (INDI_FOUND)
-install( FILES kstarsui.rc DESTINATION  ${KXMLGUI_INSTALL_DIR}/kstars )
+install( FILES kstarsui.rc DESTINATION
/home/sbairagy/kde/usr/share/kxmlgui5/kstars )
 endif(INDI_FOUND)

-install( FILES fitsviewer.rc  DESTINATION  ${KXMLGUI_INSTALL_DIR}/kstars )
+install( FILES fitsviewer.rc  DESTINATION
/home/sbairagy/kde/usr/share/kxmlgui5/kstars )
 if (WIN32)
-  install( FILES kstarsui-win.rc  DESTINATION  ${KXMLGUI_INSTALL_DIR}/kstars )
+  install( FILES kstarsui-win.rc  DESTINATION
/home/sbairagy/kde/usr/share/kxmlgui5/kstars )
 endif (WIN32)


This does install KStars correctly, but trying to execute this
installation fails. I
have attached a screenshot with this email that shows this.

It would be great if I could get any help me with this.

[1] http://www.progdan.cz/2014/01/kde-frameworks-5-and-plasma-2-on-fedora/
[2] http://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/dvratil/kde-frameworks/


Thanks and Regards,
-- 
Samikshan Bairagya,
KDE India | Red Hat
http://samxan.wordpress.com
(samikshan on Freenode IRC)
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