Changes between Version 6 and Version 7 of KDE


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Mar 5, 2013, 12:12:40 AM (11 years ago)
Author:
IanWadham
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Added to and edited the 'Installing KDE with MacPorts' section.

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    1616sudo port install kdelibs4
    1717}}}
    18 The dependencies are handled by MacPorts and should be installed automatically. Please note that several large packages are required by KDE, so that the installation may take a long time.
     18The dependencies are handled by MacPorts and should be installed automatically. Please note that several large packages are required by KDE, so that the installation or re-installation may take a few hours at first, but less time for subsequent KDE applications. It may be helpful to break the work into stages: first qt4-mac, then kdelibs4 and kde4-runtime and finally the KDE applications you require.
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    20 The ports contained in MacPorts essentially match the packages provided on [http://download.kde.org/extra/mirrors.html KDE mirrors]. Several ports end however with a "4", or start with "kde4-" in order to differentiate the ports from the ones of the older KDE version 3. A list of the available ports is provided [wiki:KDE#Listofports below]. It is also possible to get a full list by issuing the command
     20The ports contained in MacPorts essentially match the packages provided on [http://download.kde.org/extra/mirrors.html KDE mirrors]. Several ports end however with a "4", or start with "kde4-" in order to differentiate the ports from the ones of the older KDE version 3. KDE 3 became obsolescent in 2008 and is no longer supported, so KDE 3 ports should be avoided as far as possible.
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     22A list of the available ports is provided [wiki:KDE#Listofports below]. It is also possible to get a full list by issuing one of the commands
    2123{{{
    2224port echo categories:kde4
     25port echo categories:kde4|grep -v 'kde-i18n-'|grep -v 'kde-l10n-'
    2326}}}
     27The second command filters out the ports for translations of KDE applications into languages other than English.
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    2529== User-required steps ==