Hi, the official package for Kdenlive on current misses several options (export aac, tracking plugin, etc). Right now I'm using the AppImage as it seems to correctly detects my recompiled ffmpeg with proprietary codecs and opencv (or maybe use its own), but I would like to rebuild the official package to keep the system clean. The problem is, I don't quite get how to use the slackbuild in source tree since it seems to want to recompile every single component of KDE. Is there a way to just download and recompile kdenlive? How do I set the configure parameters then?

Hello rinza,

You can edit Package-Blacklist https://mirror.slackbuilds.org/slack...kage-blacklist while only keeping the packages necessary for Kdenlive.

The packages required for Kdenlive:
attica,extra-cmake-modules,karchive,kauth,kbookmarks,kcodecs,kcompletion,kconfig,kconfigwidgets,kcoreaddons,kcrash,kdbu saddons,kdeclarative,kdenlive,kdoctools,kglobalaccel,kguiaddons,ki18n,kiconthemes,kio,kitemviews,kjo bwidgets,knewstuff,knotifications,knotifyconfig,kpackage,kservice,ktextwidgets,kwidgetsaddons,kwindo wsystem,kxmlgui,mlt,purpose,solid,sonnet.

*It can also be used to install Kdenlive with XFCE.

in slackware64-current/source/kde/kde/
in a root konsole

./kde.SlackBuild applications:kdenlive

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Thanks! Very cumbersome still, I will try to blacklist everything except kdenlive itself, since everything is already installed. I wonder if someone has ever created a more modular approach to building kde-stuff

Ah nice, thanks, I will let lftp mirror with --exclude src/ to prevent downloading everything and try this!

Unfortunately this method requires you to download the full src directory (I've tried with only the kdenlive*.* files), which is very large.

The script do have PRECHECK and CHECKOUT variables which I suppose would skip the source checking and downloading, but it appears to not prevent running find on the source files and quitting the script as it detect those files are missing (error goes like this for every various KDE components:

http://slackware.osuosl.org/slackwar...23.08.5.tar.xz

but normally just it need kdenlive source

I abbreviated the output, the error message repeats for the hundreds of packages needed for KDE full installation before quitting the script.

to rinza, you could look here for a complete modular kde build : https://raw.githubusercontent.com/no.../kde/build_kde

if kde isn't installed it need de deps are installed

All KDE packages are installed and functioning perfectly, the problem is I want to rebuild just kdenlive without downloading and rebuilding everything that is already installed and working.

Thanks, I will study the script to see how it works and try it tomorrow! Unfortunately, this won't do. It just automate the same ./kde.SlackBuild applications:kdenlive, iterating through all KDE packages, so it fails the same without all sources downloaded.

It works here without problem, check that everything is present in /source/kde/kde/, directories and files.

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I have downloaded all files except src/, then I manually created src/applications and placed the 2 kdenlive source files. Given the output error of the script, it fails by try running find in that folder looking for all other sources.

Maybe lftp missed downloading something with the "--exclude" option? I will try to redownload using wget or other method and see if it works this time, but it still appears to me that the script is running past the environment variables which ask to skip prechecking all the sources.

Yes, something was missing with lftp mirroring process. Now ./kde.SlackBuild applications:kdenlive builds the kdenlive application successfully. Strangely though, it still does not detect aac as available (my ffmpeg is recompiled with several different options, including restricted codecs, and it works normally) and the tracking plugin is missing also. Maybe I should check the configure flags for kdenlive? But where is it stored?