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:
21 XML formatted documentation files for the apps
24 If ever an app crashes (heaven forbid!) then Dr.Konqi will be so kind
25 and make a stack trace. This is a great help for the developers to fix
29 Searches for non-KDE applications, e.g. Acrobat Reader (tm) and installs
30 those apps under the K start button.
33 Small program to enter and check passwords, to be used by other
37 The KDE Control Center allows you to tweak the KDE settings.
40 Allows you to specify which debug messages you want to see.
43 The KDE printing system.
46 You guessed it: the desktop above the panel.
49 A graphical front end to "su".
52 Allows to display menu boxes from shell scripts.
55 Replacement for XDM, for those people that like graphical logins.
58 File find utility (standalone and in Konqueror's file manager).
61 Used to to read all great documentation about KDE, unix man pages,
65 Intercepts keys and can call applications.
68 The panel at the botton with the K start button and the taskbar etc.
71 Infrastructure that helps make every application internet enabled
72 e.g. to directly save a file to ftp://place.org/dir/file.txt
75 Taskbar applet that enhances and extenses the X clipboard.
78 Edit for the menu below the K start button.
81 The file manager and web browser you get easily used to.
84 A shell program similar to xterm.
87 A tool for shell scripts to get info from KDE's config files.
90 The KDE screensaver environment and some basic screensavers. More
91 of them are in the kdeartwork package.
94 The KDE session manager (saves program status on login, restarts
95 those program at the next login).
98 A KDE frontend for passwd. Also contains the "Password & User Information" KCM.
101 The screen displayed while KDE starts.
104 Launches applications with special window properties such as iconified,
108 Task manager and system monitor, can work with remote systems.
111 Allows to run any application in the system tray.
114 Gives you tips how to use KDE.
117 The KDE window manager (moves, resizes and decorates windows).
123 l-10letters-n: localization. Mostly country flags.
126 Some libraries needed by Konqueror.
129 Together with OSF/Motif or Lesstif allows you to use Netscape (tm)
130 plugins in Konqueror.
133 Various icons and wallpapers.
138 Thank you Steven M. Scotten and Kuno Raffi (weave) for creating artwork
139 specifically for the K Desktop Environment. Your efforts are much
142 Mr. Scotten has created: blue_angle_swirl, bluecheck, bluegreencrisscross,
143 bluegreensilver, candystripe_chainlink, charcoal_sunset, fadedpaint,
144 garden_lattice, ghost_lightning, glassywarpcheck, gold_crinkle, greenish,
145 heavens_hex, latte, lime_vibration, liquid_canvas, northbeach,
146 orange_stacks, purple_swirl, string_theory, sunday_brunch,
147 toothofthehoundthatbitcha, vegetative_fog, wavetron, woodcheck
152 IMPORTANT: most applications need KDEDIRS as the directory where KDE is
153 installed. Please set this in your login file. KDEDIR is deprecated starting
154 with KDE 4. Instead use KDEDIRS, which can also hold a list of directories.
156 If XPM support wasn't configured, it may be that configure has no idea where
157 your XPM libraries are. If so, set XPM_INCLUDE and XPM_LDFLAGS to the paths
158 where configure should look for XPM. But if you haven't installed XPM or it
159 didn't come with your system, that's no problem. You will only miss a few
160 screensavers. The same thing applies with OPENGL support. Here you have to
161 set GL_INCLUDE and GL_LDFLAGS.
163 If configure claims Qt cannot be found, have a look at
164 ftp://ftp.trolltech.com and download the latest Qt 4.x.x release, at least Qt 4.4.0.
166 Be advised, if you're using FreeBSD, then please do not use the Qt port that
172 KDE 4 is built using CMake (http://www.cmake.org), version 2.4.5 is the minimum
173 required version. This means there is no configure-script anymore, but you
175 Before building kdebase, you need to build and install kdepimlibs, this is
176 new compared to KDE < 4.
177 Most of the options which were supported by the "old" configure script
178 are already also supported with the new buildsystem. To adjust these options,
179 use ccmake, there you can see them all. They have been slightly renamed
180 compared to the configure-options:
182 These are the installation directories, by default they are all
183 located beneath /usr/local, but you can adjust each of them individually.
185 CONFIG_INSTALL_DIR - the config file install dir
186 DATA_INSTALL_DIR - the parent directory where applications can install their data
187 HTML_INSTALL_DIR - the HTML install dir for documentation
188 ICON_INSTALL_DIR - the icon install dir (default prefix/share/icons/)
189 INFO_INSTALL_DIR - the kde info install dir (default prefix/info)
190 KCFG_INSTALL_DIR - the install dir for kconfig files
191 LIB_INSTALL_DIR - the subdirectory relative to the install prefix where libraries will b
192 LOCALE_INSTALL_DIR - the install dir for translations
193 MAN_INSTALL_DIR - the kde man page install dir (default prefix/man/)
194 MIME_INSTALL_DIR - the install dir for the mimetype desktop files
195 PLUGIN_INSTALL_DIR - the subdirectory relative to the install prefix where plugins will be
196 SERVICES_INSTALL_DIR - the install dir for service (desktop, protocol, ...) files
197 SERVICETYPES_INSTALL_DIR - the install dir for servicestypes desktop files
198 SOUND_INSTALL_DIR - the install dir for sound files
199 TEMPLATES_INSTALL_DIR - the install dir for templates (Create new file...)
200 WALLPAPER_INSTALL_DIR - the install dir for wallpapers
201 KCONF_UPDATE_INSTALL_DIR - the kconf_update install dir
202 XDG_APPS_INSTALL_DIR - the XDG apps dir
203 XDG_DIRECTORY_INSTALL_DIR- the XDG directory
204 SYSCONF_INSTALL_DIR - The kde sysconfig install dir
205 AUTOSTART_INSTALL_DIR - The install dir for autostart files
207 CMAKE_SKIP_RPATH: set it to TRUE to disable RPATH completely
208 KDE4_USE_ALWAYS_FULL_RPATH: set it to TRUE to use the full RPATH everywhere
210 Use ccmake to see all available settings.
214 You can use --enable-debug with the configure script, if you want to have
215 debug code in your KDE apps and libs.
216 To get another build of KDE, you have to adjust the CMake variable CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE.
217 The following build types are supported:
219 "RELWITHDEBINFO" - optimized and debug info
220 "RELEASE" - optimized
221 "DEBUG" - optimizied, debug info, some optimizations disabled
222 "DEBUGFULL" - more debug info, no optimizations
223 "PROFILE" - full debug, coverage and profile info
225 If you experience problems and want to
226 report problems to the KDE Bugs database, it is recommended to recompile
227 with this switch enabled to make the backtraces more verbose (and thus
228 giving the developer more information about the cause of the bug).
231 Removal/Uninstallation
232 ----------------------
233 You can use 'make uninstall' if you want to remove the kde from the dirs.
234 This feature has not been tested completely, and is depreciated. On a system
235 where KDEDIRS is specific to KDE (i.e. not /usr) and contains only a single
236 directory, rm -rf $KDEDIRS does it as well.
241 If your system does not have XPM installed, and you cannot locate a package
242 of it, you may obtain it from ftp://avahi.inria.fr/pub/xpm, or you may find
243 it in ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles
245 If you are running a FreeBSD system, you will need to make sure that LIBS is
246 set to "-Wl,-export-dynamic". The easiest way to do this is to prefix
247 configure with it, i.e.: LIBS="-Wl,-export-dynamic" ./configure. Thanks to
248 Will Andrews <will@FreeBSD.org> and Arun Sharma <adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org>
249 for identifying what needed to be done, and how to do it, and such.
251 If your system supports PAM (Plugable Authentication Modules), please see
252 the README.pam file in the workspace directory for more information about
255 Have a look at the individual subdirectories, if you would like to find out
256 more about a specific application included in kdebase.
258 More FAQs on http://www.kde.org/info/faq.html
260 If you have problems compiling and installing this package, please check the
261 kde-devel@kde.org mailing list archive (see http://lists.kde.org) to see if
262 somebody had a similiar problem already. If not, try posting a message to
263 the list with detailed information about the compile problem.
265 General KDE discussions should go to the KDE mailing list (kde@kde.org).