Re: Questions about KDE4
Am Dienstag 15 Januar 2008 schrieb David Bremner:
> >>>>> "Martin" == Martin Steigerwald <Martin@lichtvoll.de> writes:
>
> Martin> I have it in virtualbox. Works pretty nice. You can't
> Martin> fully test compositing easily at least with OpenGL tough,
> Martin> it won't obviously not hardware accelerated.
>
>
> Hi Martin;
Hi David,
> Could you give as a few details about what you did to get kde4 running
> on virtualbox?
I installed etch from the net installer without any tasks, cause I
couldn't download a lenny/sid installer at that day (torrents broken and
what not, somehow I just didn't found a working URL), upgraded to sid,
then installed KDE 3.5 and then installed KDE 4 experimental, so that I
have everything from KDE 4 and anything from KDE 3 that remains (for
example kdepim). I also installed 2.6.23 kernel, but that shouldn't
matter. Had some strange problems with xorg, it didn't generate a
suitable xorg.conf initially, so I copied over my laptop one.
You need to have experimental in the sources.list of course. Since
experimental by default has a low priority aptitude won't automatically
update KDE 4 packages. I use the following to get to know what KDE
packages I need to update:
apt-show-versions | egrep "(kde|plasma|extragear)" | grep -v uptodate
(you need the debian package apt-show-versions for that too work)
I basically have these packages installed:
kde4debian:/etc/default/kdm.d# apt-show-versions | egrep "(kde|plasma|
extragear)" | sort
extragear-plasma-data/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-1
extragear-plasma/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-1
kdeadmin/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-1
kdebase-bin/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-1
kdebase-data/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-1
kdebase/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-1
kdebase-kio-plugins/experimental uptodate 4:3.96.0-1
kdebase-runtime-bin-kde4/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-1
kdebase-runtime-data-common/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-1
kdebase-runtime-data/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-1
kdebase-runtime/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-1
kdebase-workspace-bin/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-2
kdebase-workspace-data/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-2
kdebase-workspace/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-2
kdeedu/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-1
kdegames-card-data/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-1
kdegames/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-1
kdegames-mahjongg-data/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-1
kdegraphics/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-1
kdegraphics-strigi-plugins/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-1
kde-icons-oxygen/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-1
kde-l10n-de/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-1
kdelibs4c2a/sid uptodate 4:3.5.8.dfsg.1-6
kdelibs5-data/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-1
kdelibs5/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-1
kdelibs-bin/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-1
kdelibs-data/sid uptodate 4:3.5.8.dfsg.1-6
kdemultimedia/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-1
kdemultimedia-kio-plugins/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-1
kdenetwork/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-1
kdenetwork-filesharing/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-1
kdepasswd/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-1
kdepim-kfile-plugins/sid uptodate 4:3.5.8-1
kdepim-kio-plugins/sid uptodate 4:3.5.8-1
kdepim-kresources/sid uptodate 4:3.5.8-1
kdepimlibs5/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-1
kdepimlibs-data/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-1
kdepim/sid uptodate 4:3.5.8-1
kdepim-wizards/sid uptodate 4:3.5.8-1
kdessh/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-1
kdeutils/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-1
libkdeedu4/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-1
libkdegames4/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-1
libkdepim1a/sid uptodate 4:3.5.8-1
liblockdev1/sid uptodate 1.0.3-1.2
libplasma1/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-2
I hope thats complete. Maybe I am missing something.
For kdm from KDE 4 to work correctly I needed to disable the debian theme:
kde4debian:/etc/default/kdm.d# cat 10_desktop-base
USETHEME="false"
THEME="/usr/share/apps/kdm/themes/debian-moreblue"
WALLPAPER="/usr/share/apps/kdm/themes/debian-moreblue/background.svg"
I also installed the virtualbox guest additions, I used the ISO that you
can mount into the VM via the menu. This also replaced the graphics and
mouse driver with VirtualBox ones. So for example mouse pointer does not
get locked inside the VM window. There are Debian packages for guest
additions in the meanwhile tough.
Well I could upload the image somewhere, there is nothing private in
there, but its already about 2.3 GB... I could try to compact it via
vboxmanage and 7zip or something to see how big it would be. To host it
on my or one of the companies server I would need to ask first,
tough ;-).
Ciao,
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Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de
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