AlienBob KDE 4.8.4: Building on Slacware 13.37 ?
 

Hi,

I upgraded to KDE 4.6.5 using packages available AlienBob's repo. Now I want to upgrade to 4.8.4. Well there are no packages available so looks like I've to build them myself from source.

I can't seem to find any README file there, so I need to ask how can I go about installing 4.8.4. There are two Slackbuild scripts available there (KDE.SlacBuild & my.SlackBuild). I'm not 100% which one to run, if at all, or do I need to meet any dependencies before this. I read somewhere that I need to install mesa-7.10.2 from the /testing directory which I've installed.

Any ideas?

I would spare myself the hassle of building the whole load of KDE and just go for Slackware 14.0 RC5 shipping with KDE 4.8.

I don't think that you can compile directly KDE 4.8.4 on Slackware 13.37, without installing at least KDE 4.8.1 which had a 'deps' directory with many updated packages (qt, phonon, soprano, akonadi, ...). I have installed (from source, using Alien Bob's SlackBuilds) KDE 4.8.1, then upgraded to 4.8.2, 4.8.3 and finally to 4.8.4. In the course I had also to update some packages of the base system because the SlackBuilds were for -current.

@fgcl2k Hmm, thanks for your comments. I should have installed when it was released by Eric to keep up with the updates rather than taking all the successive steps now.

@kikinovak So I guess it's better to just download the Slackware 14 RC5 dvd, less of a hassle that way.

I'm gonna stay with my 4.6.5 for now, plus it won't be too long before we have Slackware 14 out.

Why not wait for Slackware 14 proper? An upgrade using slackpkg should not be painful: http://docs.slackware.com/howtos:sla...:systemupgrade

Eric

Thanks Eric for your reply, I'm gonna stick with what I've right now. I hope Slackware 14 is around the corner :).