KDE 2.2.2

As of 2009 August, EofNET Networks have published its ported KDE 2.2.2 source code to the public, this KDE port works on new linux systems (maybe some more). The main goal of this work is to support old/legacy desktop/laptop systems with full featured desktop environment.

KDE 2.2.2 EofNET source release includes these ported sources:

• QT-2.3.2
• KDELIBS-2.2.2
• KDEBASE-2.2.2

More packages like kdemultimedia will be ported later...

Tested systems are:

• Debian etch/lenny.
• Gentoo.

Compilation/Installation

We haven't made any binary packages for this yet, so you need to compile it by yourself...

First of all we need to set prefix of KDE 2 to something like /usr/lib/kde2 so it will not harm your system or overwrite something, also it patched for kde prefix on users home directories to be ~/.kde2 nor ~/.kde or something, that can harm your current kde installation or something...

Ok we need to get files from svn repository now, remember to install subversion to get this:

# svn checkout svn://svn.eofnet.lt/lab06/kde_2.2.2
# cd kde_2.2.2

So first we need to export environment variables, better way to do this is to add text bellow to the /etc/profile

QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt2
PATH=$QTDIR/bin:/usr/lib/kde2/bin:$PATH
MANPATH=$QTDIR/doc/man:$MANPATH
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$QTDIR/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Then do this

# source /etc/profile

Now we can start building QT 2:

# cd qt-2.3.2
# ./configure -thread -gif -sm -system-zlib -system-libpng -system-libmng -system-jpeg -xft `freetype-config --cflags`
# make
# g++ -shared -Wl,-soname,libqutil.so.1 -o lib/libqutil.so.1.0.0 tools/designer/util/*.o -Llib -lqt-mt
# g++ -o bin/designer tools/designer/designer/*.o -Llib -lqt-mt -lqutil
# g++ -o bin/uic tools/designer/uic/*.o tools/designer/shared/*.o tools/designer/integration/kdevelop/*.o -Llib -lqt-mt -lqutil

Now needs to install it! ;-)

# QT_DIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/lib/qt2
# mkdir -p $QT_DIR
# cp -r bin configs lib $QT_DIR
# find $QT_DIR/lib -type f -exec strip {} \;
# find $QT_DIR/bin -type f -exec strip {} \;
# mkdir $QT_DIR/include
# cp include/* $QT_DIR/include/

Now we will compile kdelibs!

# cd ../kdelibs-2.2.2
# ./configure --prefix=/usr/lib/kde2 --with-qt-dir=/usr/lib/qt2  --enable-mt --with-alsa
# make

Install!

# make install prefix=/usr/lib/kde2
# find /usr/lib/kde2/bin -type f -exec strip {} \;
# find /usr/lib/kde2/lib -name \*.so\* -type f -exec strip {} \;
# rm -f /usr/lib/kde2/lib/*.a /usr/lib/kde2/lib/kde2/*.a

Ok, now we will add dynamic link libraries path to /etc/ld.so.conf or /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ld.so-kde2.conf (depends on the distro)

/usr/lib/qt2/lib
/usr/lib/kde2/lib

Now run:

# ldconfig

Finally we will build kdebase

# ./configure --prefix=/usr/lib/kde2 --with-qt-dir=/usr/lib/qt2  --enable-mt --with-pam=kde2
# make

Install kde2 base

# make install prefix=/usr/lib/kde2 etc=/etc
# find /usr/lib/kde2/bin -type f -exec strip {} \;
# find /usr/lib/kde2/lib -name \*.so\* -type f -exec strip {} \;
# rm -f /usr/lib/kde2/lib/*.a /usr/lib/kde2/lib/kde2/*.a
# chmod 755 /usr/lib/kde2/bin/kcheckpass
# chown root:shadow /usr/lib/kde2/bin/kcheckpass
# ldconfig

now we can startkde from .xinitrc !

# echo > "exec startkde" ~/.xinitrc
# startx

Other information

Please report known bugs to devnull@bsdnet.net

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