View source for KDE4/KDE Pre-Installation Configuration

To prevent KDE4 from killing KDE3 we only talk about installing into /opt. This will be changed once KDE4 has been tested and more accepted.
We use a hard link to /opt/kde4 to prevent /opt/KDE from being removed and causeing KDE3 to fail.

If you're using the [[Bash Startup Files]] then run the commands below. Otherwise make sure that the values you want are properly set.

== Installing KDE into /opt ==

Create the '''/opt/kde4''' directory:

 install -dv -m755 /opt/kde4

Create the KDE4 tmp dir. This will prolly need to be run once for each user that want access to KDE4.

 install -dv -m1777 /tmp/${USER}-kde4

=== Non-Multilib ===

Create an addition to the [[Bash Startup Files]]:

 cat > /etc/profile.d/30-kde4.sh << "EOF"
 # Begin /etc/profile.d/30-kde4.sh
 if [ ! -d /tmp/${USER}-kde4 ]; then
 mkdir /tmp/${USER}-kde4
 fi
 export KDEDIR=/opt/kde4
 export KDEDIRS=$KDEDIR
 export KDETMP=/tmp/$USER-kde4
 export STRIGI_HOME=${KDEDIR}
 export QT_PLUGINS_DIR=$KDEDIR/lib/kde4/plugins:$QTDIR/lib${QT_PLUGINS_DIR+:}$QT_PLUGINS_DIR
 export PATH="${PATH}:${KDEDIR}/bin"
 export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${PKG_CONFIG_PATH}${PKG_CONFIG_PATH+:}${KDEDIR}/lib/pkgconfig"
 
 # End /etc/profile.d/30-kde4.sh
 EOF
 source /etc/profile

Add a new entry to /etc/ld.so.conf for the libraries that KDE is going to install:

 cat >> /etc/ld.so.conf << "EOF"
 # Begin KDE4 addition to /etc/ld.so.conf
 
 /opt/kde4/lib
 
 # End KDE addition
 EOF

=== Multilib ===

Create an addition to the [[Bash Startup Files]]:

 cat > /etc/profile.d/30-kde4.sh << "EOF"
 # Begin /etc/profile.d/30-kde4.sh
 if [ ! -d /tmp/${USER}-kde4 ]; then
 mkdir /tmp/${USER}-kde4
 fi
 export KDEDIR=/opt/kde4
 export KDEDIRS=$KDEDIR
 export KDETMP=/tmp/$USER-kde4
 export PATH="${PATH}:${KDEDIR}/bin"
 export STRIGI_HOME=${KDEDIR}
 export QT_PLUGINS_DIR32=$KDEDIR/lib/kde4/plugins:$QTDIR/lib${QT_PLUGINS_DIR+:}$QT_PLUGINS_DIR
 export QT_PLUGINS_DIRN32=$KDEDIR/lib32/kde4/plugins:$QTDIR/lib32${QT_PLUGINS_DIR+:}$QT_PLUGINS_DIR
 export QT_PLUGINS_DIR64=$KDEDIR/lib64/kde4/plugins:$QTDIR/lib64${QT_PLUGINS_DIR+:}$QT_PLUGINS_DIR
 export PKG_CONFIG_PATH32="${PKG_CONFIG_PATH32}${PKG_CONFIG_PATH32+:}${KDEDIR}/lib/pkgconfig"
 export PKG_CONFIG_PATHN32="${PKG_CONFIG_PATHN32}${PKG_CONFIG_PATHN32+:}${KDEDIR}/lib32/pkgconfig"
 export PKG_CONFIG_PATH64="${PKG_CONFIG_PATH64}${PKG_CONFIG_PATH64+:}${KDEDIR}/lib64/pkgconfig" 
 
 # End /etc/profile.d/30-kde4.sh
 EOF
 source /etc/profile

Add a new entry to /etc/ld.so.conf for the libraries that KDE is going to install:

 cat >> /etc/ld.so.conf << "EOF"
 # Begin KDE4 addition to /etc/ld.so.conf
 
 /opt/kde4/lib
 /opt/kde4/lib32
 /opt/kde4/lib64
 
 # End KDE addition
 EOF

* [[KDE4]]