9 * Removal/Uninstallation
15 kdebase is the second mandatory package (besides kdelibs) for the K Desktop
16 Environment. Here we have various applications and infrastructure files and
17 libraries. Here is an overview of the directories:
19 == WARNING THIS OVERVIEW IS OLD; things have been separated into submodules nowadays ==
22 XML formatted documentation files for the apps
25 If ever an app crashes (heaven forbid!) then Dr.Konqi will be so kind
26 and make a stack trace. This is a great help for the developers to fix
30 Searches for non-KDE applications, e.g. Acrobat Reader (tm) and installs
31 those apps under the K start button.
34 Small program to enter and check passwords, to be used by other
38 The KDE Control Center allows you to tweak the KDE settings.
41 Allows you to specify which debug messages you want to see.
44 A graphical front end to "su".
47 Allows to display menu boxes from shell scripts.
50 Replacement for XDM, for those people that like graphical logins.
53 File find utility (standalone and in Konqueror's file manager).
56 Used to to read all great documentation about KDE, unix man pages,
60 Intercepts keys and can call applications.
63 Infrastructure that helps make every application internet enabled
64 e.g. to directly save a file to ftp://place.org/dir/file.txt
67 Taskbar applet that enhances and extenses the X clipboard.
70 Edit for the menu below the K start button.
73 The file manager and web browser you get easily used to.
76 A shell program similar to xterm.
79 A tool for shell scripts to get info from KDE's config files.
82 The KDE screensaver environment and some basic screensavers. More
83 of them are in the kdeartwork package.
86 The KDE session manager (saves program status on login, restarts
87 those program at the next login).
90 A KDE frontend for passwd. Also contains the "Password & User Information" KCM.
93 The screen displayed while KDE starts.
96 Launches applications with special window properties such as iconified,
100 Task manager and system monitor, can work with remote systems.
103 Allows to run any application in the system tray.
106 Gives you tips how to use KDE.
109 The KDE window manager (moves, resizes and decorates windows).
115 l-10letters-n: localization. Mostly country flags.
118 Some libraries needed by Konqueror.
121 Together with OSF/Motif or Lesstif allows you to use Netscape (tm)
122 plugins in Konqueror.
125 Various icons and wallpapers.
130 Thank you Steven M. Scotten and Kuno Raffi (weave) for creating artwork
131 specifically for the K Desktop Environment. Your efforts are much
134 Mr. Scotten has created: blue_angle_swirl, bluecheck, bluegreencrisscross,
135 bluegreensilver, candystripe_chainlink, charcoal_sunset, fadedpaint,
136 garden_lattice, ghost_lightning, glassywarpcheck, gold_crinkle, greenish,
137 heavens_hex, latte, lime_vibration, liquid_canvas, northbeach,
138 orange_stacks, purple_swirl, string_theory, sunday_brunch,
139 toothofthehoundthatbitcha, vegetative_fog, wavetron, woodcheck
144 IMPORTANT: most applications need KDEDIRS as the directory where KDE is
145 installed. Please set this in your login file. KDEDIR is deprecated starting
146 with KDE 4. Instead use KDEDIRS, which can also hold a list of directories.
148 If XPM support wasn't configured, it may be that configure has no idea where
149 your XPM libraries are. If so, set XPM_INCLUDE and XPM_LDFLAGS to the paths
150 where configure should look for XPM. But if you haven't installed XPM or it
151 didn't come with your system, that's no problem. You will only miss a few
152 screensavers. The same thing applies with OPENGL support. Here you have to
153 set GL_INCLUDE and GL_LDFLAGS.
155 If configure claims Qt cannot be found, have a look at
156 ftp://ftp.trolltech.com and download the latest Qt 4.x.x release, at least Qt 4.4.0.
158 Be advised, if you're using FreeBSD, then please do not use the Qt port that
164 KDE 4 is built using CMake (http://www.cmake.org), version 2.4.5 is the minimum
165 required version. This means there is no configure-script anymore, but you
167 Before building kdebase, you need to build and install kdepimlibs, this is
168 new compared to KDE < 4.
169 Most of the options which were supported by the "old" configure script
170 are already also supported with the new buildsystem. To adjust these options,
171 use ccmake, there you can see them all. They have been slightly renamed
172 compared to the configure-options:
174 These are the installation directories, by default they are all
175 located beneath /usr/local, but you can adjust each of them individually.
177 CONFIG_INSTALL_DIR - the config file install dir
178 DATA_INSTALL_DIR - the parent directory where applications can install their data
179 HTML_INSTALL_DIR - the HTML install dir for documentation
180 ICON_INSTALL_DIR - the icon install dir (default prefix/share/icons/)
181 INFO_INSTALL_DIR - the kde info install dir (default prefix/info)
182 KCFG_INSTALL_DIR - the install dir for kconfig files
183 LIB_INSTALL_DIR - the subdirectory relative to the install prefix where libraries will b
184 LOCALE_INSTALL_DIR - the install dir for translations
185 MAN_INSTALL_DIR - the kde man page install dir (default prefix/man/)
186 MIME_INSTALL_DIR - the install dir for the mimetype desktop files
187 PLUGIN_INSTALL_DIR - the subdirectory relative to the install prefix where plugins will be
188 SERVICES_INSTALL_DIR - the install dir for service (desktop, protocol, ...) files
189 SERVICETYPES_INSTALL_DIR - the install dir for servicestypes desktop files
190 SOUND_INSTALL_DIR - the install dir for sound files
191 TEMPLATES_INSTALL_DIR - the install dir for templates (Create new file...)
192 WALLPAPER_INSTALL_DIR - the install dir for wallpapers
193 KCONF_UPDATE_INSTALL_DIR - the kconf_update install dir
194 XDG_APPS_INSTALL_DIR - the XDG apps dir
195 XDG_DIRECTORY_INSTALL_DIR- the XDG directory
196 SYSCONF_INSTALL_DIR - The kde sysconfig install dir
197 AUTOSTART_INSTALL_DIR - The install dir for autostart files
199 CMAKE_SKIP_RPATH: set it to TRUE to disable RPATH completely
200 KDE4_USE_ALWAYS_FULL_RPATH: set it to TRUE to use the full RPATH everywhere
202 Use ccmake to see all available settings.
206 You can use --enable-debug with the configure script, if you want to have
207 debug code in your KDE apps and libs.
208 To get another build of KDE, you have to adjust the CMake variable CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE.
209 The following build types are supported:
211 "RELWITHDEBINFO" - optimized and debug info
212 "RELEASE" - optimized
213 "DEBUG" - optimizied, debug info, some optimizations disabled
214 "DEBUGFULL" - more debug info, no optimizations
215 "PROFILE" - full debug, coverage and profile info
217 If you experience problems and want to
218 report problems to the KDE Bugs database, it is recommended to recompile
219 with this switch enabled to make the backtraces more verbose (and thus
220 giving the developer more information about the cause of the bug).
223 Removal/Uninstallation
224 ----------------------
225 You can use 'make uninstall' if you want to remove the kde from the dirs.
226 This feature has not been tested completely, and is depreciated. On a system
227 where KDEDIRS is specific to KDE (i.e. not /usr) and contains only a single
228 directory, rm -rf $KDEDIRS does it as well.
233 If your system supports PAM (Plugable Authentication Modules), please see
234 the README.pam file in the workspace directory for more information about
237 Have a look at the individual subdirectories, if you would like to find out
238 more about a specific application included in kdebase.
240 More FAQs on http://www.kde.org/info/faq.html
242 If you have problems compiling and installing this package, please check the
243 kde-devel@kde.org mailing list archive (see http://lists.kde.org) to see if
244 somebody had a similar problem already. If not, try posting a message to
245 the list with detailed information about the compile problem.
247 General KDE discussions should go to the KDE mailing list (kde@kde.org).