KDE 2.2 Ships (Visit an FTP Server Near You)

After some delay caused by a severe hardware failure on KDE's ftp server,
the KDE Project has announced
the official release of KDE 2.2. This release brings a lot of goodies,
including: faster startup times (using the experimental
objprelink
method
) and performance; numerous improvements to HTML rendering
and JavaScript support; the addition of IMAP support (including SSL and
TLS) to KMail; a new plugin-based print architecture with integrated
filter and page layout capabilities; a number of new plugins for Konqueror
(including a Babelfish translator, an image gallery generator, an HTML
validator and a web archiver); native iCalendar support in KOrganizer; and
a new personalization wizard. Compaq
has also announced the addition of KDE to
Tru64. Time to tell the boss to forget XP, and use KDE (hmmmm, back in my college days that would have made a nice chant: 'Forget XP, use KDE', . . .).

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by Rikard Anglerud (not verified)

Yep, I'm running it on Mandrake 8.0 right now. I had to uninstall some earler kde2.x rpm's, and get a few ones from mandrake (I used cooker)

The packages I grabbed were:
libpcre0-3.4-3mdk
libpcre0-devel-3.4-3mdk
pcre-3.4-3mdk
Oh yeah, and I installed apmd too, but you might already have that installed.

he package I uninstalled wes
kdeaddutils-2.0-3mdk, but there might have been one or two more. Check rpm's output.

The Mandrake packages seem to come without objprelink (well, no massive speedups here at least). Defintiely snappier than before but, I'm going to see if I can't find some with objprelink

by Billy Nopants (not verified)
by Dieter Nützel (not verified)

I get "The https protocol isn't supported" (in GERMAN :-)

So I can't access my dri.sourceforge.net account any longer.

SuSE Linux 7.1
Am I missing something?

Thanks,
Dieter

Too old version of openssl. You need at least 0.9.6, which can be found somewhere on SuSE ftp-server.

Thanks,

I had it but I've upgraded to the latest SuSE 7.1 one, now.

SunWave1>rpm -qa|grep ssl
openssl-0.9.6a-42
openssl-doc-0.9.6a-42
openssl-devel-0.9.6a-42

Didn't help :-(

If I do some little diagnostics I think only libkssl is involved?

SunWave1>l /opt/kde2/lib/libkssl.*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1001 Aug 10 22:22 /opt/kde2/lib/libkssl.la
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Jul 11 17:35 /opt/kde2/lib/libkssl.so -> libkssl.so.2.0.2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Jul 11 17:35 /opt/kde2/lib/libkssl.so.2 -> libkssl.so.2.0.2
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 172370 Aug 10 22:22 /opt/kde2/lib/libkssl.so.2.0.2

Latest SuSE 7.1 KDE-2.2.

-Dieter

This is intentional so far. Since several users have already updated their OpenSSL package to a security fixed, but this version is not binary compatible to older version (the several 0.9.6* version are not binary compatible to a different 0.9.6*) the SSL support has been disabled to protect against crashes for SuSE < 7.2.

I will build a kdelibs version which include a OpenSSL version in the next days. ( it was a suggestion from Dre).

Thanks a lot, Adrian!

If I only could my XFree 4.1.0 (SuSE 7.1 update) plus DRI running together with the new kdm...

-Dieter

by utopia (not verified)

hi,
once again bing thanks to all kde developers for another great release.

...but i can't compile it on slack8.0. kdelibs compiles fine, but the kdebase is a bit problematic. first thing is kpersonalizer.
lots of "undefined symbols" and looks like that
*.cpp files are empty (well only

#include
#include "somefilename.moc"

in them. should it be this way?
same thing in ksysguard and kscreensaver.

this would be not a problem to me. i could live without kpersonaizer and ssavers and i use ksysguard rarely, but thats not it.

so i ignore make errors (make -i) and install it anyways. i startx & startkde and while loading
i get segfaulted: kded, kontify also lotsa problems with DCOP communication. then i can't go to control center (half of modules have undefined symbols), konqueror crashes a lot, etc, etc, etc...thats very strange.
anyway i hope that some1 had the same problem and solved it

TIA
utopia

k now here's what i use:
egcs-2.91.66

by Benjamin Atkin (not verified)

As a slack user you probably know this, but the ecgs fork was moved back into gcc (the Gnu Compiler Collection), as a result, kde may not be trying very hard to support egcs. Try putting g++ on your system, perhaps one of the newer 2.x versions, and compiling it.

Good luck, though!

by wireless (not verified)

I checked ftp://ftp.us.kde.org

There are the following trees, but no sign of 2.2:
2.0.1
2.1-update
2.1.1
2.1.2
2.1
latest (2.1.1)

I am new to Linux.

When I wanted to install Ximian GNOME, I became
superuser and simply typed:

lynx -source http://go-gnome.com/ | sh

Is there a similar script for KDE 2.2?

by Evan "JabberWok... (not verified)

>> Is there a similar script for KDE 2.2?

In theory, yes. You see, KDE lets the individual distributions package KDE, rather than doing it themselves. This leads to some nice benefits down the road.

For instance, if you're using debian, you might type somthing like "apt-get kde", or if you're using a rpm based distro, you might click on the "Upgrade" or "Updates" icon on your desktop, and choose KDE.

Basically, since the distro maker packaged it, they should provide it in their normal "update" channel. The upside is that you don't have to learn a new way to install it - it's the same way you install all upgrades and patches. The downside, of course, is that you have to know what to do for your distro.

--
Evan

by mathi (not verified)

I use Redhat 6.2 with kernel 2.2.19. So, I'm left with compiling the binary myself.

Is there any order in which one needs to do the compile?

Also when I compile the kdesdk I get the following message:
checking for KDE... configure: error:
in the prefix, you've chosen, are no KDE headers installed. This will fail.
So, check this please and use another prefix!

What does this mean?

thanks,
-Mathi

by mathi (not verified)

I've now compiled the KDE Source and installed them. But when I do a startkde I get the following...

xsetroot: unable to open display ''
xset: unable to open display ""
ksplash: cannot connect to X server
Aborting. $DISPLAY is not set.
Aborting. $DISPLAY is not set.
ERROR: KUniqueApplication: Pipe closed unexpected.
ksmserver: cannot connect to X server
connect() failed: : Connection refused

I run Redhat6.2 with gcc 2.95.3 & XFree4.1. Do I need to make any modifications? Any help???

-Mathi

by Moritz Moeller-... (not verified)

To start KDE, you need to
use X.

Also see the FAQ about this question:
http://www.kde.org/documentation/faq/install.html#startkde

by mathi (not verified)

thanks for the reply. I got it working. KDE is awsome...

-Mathi

by wissasm (not verified)

i don't understand your reply please help me

by anuj (not verified)

hi
i am installing koffice on kde 1.1.1 on redhat 6.2
i have intalled qt but when i configure kofiice i get the same

hecking for KDE... configure: error:
in the prefix, you've chosen, are no KDE headers installed. This will fail.
So, check this please and use another prefix!

if u fixed ur prob. then u can help me.what has to be done

1.did u install kde2 or u made it work on kde 1.1.1?

do mail me

regards
anuj

by Sherif Hammouda (not verified)

I have the same problem, I downloaded the kdevelop-2.0.2 and did a configure and I got the same error checking for KDE... configure: error:
in the prefix, you've chosen, are no KDE headers installed. This will fail.
So, check this please and use another prefix!
Were u able to fix the problem

Regards
Sherif

by Lachlan Laycock (not verified)

I had the same problems trying to build several programs.
In the end i fixed it by installing the kdelibs-devel RPM (Redhat 7.3).

Hope that works for you too

Cheers

by Frank Thomas (not verified)

Thanks,

This also helped in SuSE 8.1 installing the remote desktop package.

Cheers,

FT

by Alejandro Paal (not verified)

works also for me in Suse 9.0

by Joseph Semlak (not verified)

This also helped me. Thank you.

js

Worked in Ubuntu 6.06 while trying to compile Amarok from source.
Thanks for the help. This has been bugging me all day.

by Dennis.se (not verified)

hoho, this worked for me too, on openSUSE 10.2

by Pål Hatlem (not verified)

Worked on compiling amarok from source on ubuntu for me, as well .. THANX

THANKS

This was just the fix for configuring kfolding on Kubuntu 7.04

w00t! Thanks this helped me too. Trying to get kdenlive compiled from source on Kubuntu Feisty. :)

by pjhoyer (not verified)

thanks that helped me to compile kfreeflight on suse 10.3

Ya, This is worked fine for me in Suse 9.0 OS

dont work in mepis2004... any tips?

Helped - Debian sarge (installing Umbrello 1.4.1)

it also works on suse 10.0

thanks

by hkernel (not verified)

worked for fedora 9

by Mohamad Hassan ... (not verified)

Try this :

find / -name "kapplication.h"

then ./configure --prefix=/path/to/kdeheaders

hope this helps.

by Debian user (not verified)

Same problem with Debian Woody, but I found the kde headers in one of this packages... But I don't know which one...

Release Package (size)

stable kdebase-dev 4:2.2.2-14.7 (46.4k)
KDE core applications (development files)
stable kdelibs-dev 4:2.2.2-13.woody.8 (725.5k)
KDE core libraries (development files)
stable libkonq-dev 4:2.2.2-14.7 (44.6k)
Core libraries for KDE's file manager (development headers)

by Ville Kumpulainen (not verified)

It's the first one, kdebase-dev.

by mat (not verified)

thanks kdebase-dev works indeed.

by Fred (not verified)

This also worked for me when trying to install Kmess SVN. Thanks

by Dan (not verified)

I followed your guide to finding kheaders.h but to no avail!

I bought a Cherry CyMotion keyboard and am trying to compile the source for an old SGI machine, a i486 I believe, that I am running Mabdrake 10.1 with the latest KDE.

I ran
./configure --prefix=/usr/include/kheaders.h and
./configure --prefix=/usr/include/ both to no avail

I have installed as many header and devel packages as I can find in Mandrake package manager and still the ./confie says it can't find the KDE headers.

Can you help me find them, install them (if not already) and point my ./configure in the right location. Thanku.

by Dan (not verified)

I followed your guide to finding kheaders.h but to no avail!

I bought a Cherry CyMotion keyboard and am trying to compile the source for an old SGI machine, a i486 I believe, that I am running Mandrake 10.1 with the latest KDE.

I ran
./configure --prefix=/usr/include/kapplication.h and
./configure --prefix=/usr/include/ both to no avail

I have installed as many header and devel packages as I can find in Mandrake package manager and still the ./confie says it can't find the KDE headers.

Can you help me find them, install them (if not already) and point my ./configure in the right location. Thanku.

by J (not verified)

I have the same problem with Cherry CyMotion and Mandrake 10.1.
Has anyone solved the problem?

by neil (not verified)

i had the same issue compiling anything! i seem to have now solved it by using --pref="/usr/include/" but i did notice my kde libs are in /usr/include/kde, maybe your environment is more picky then mine? might be worth a go?

by Gabi (not verified)

I have a similar problem (I'm running Slackware 9.3).
I've tried Mohamad's suggestion and found kapplication.h in /opt/kde/include.
But when I tried ./configure --prefix=/opt/kde/include I got the following error:

checking for KDE... configure: error:
in the prefix, you've chosen, are no KDE libraries installed. This will fail.
So, check this please and use another prefix!

What else can I do?

by Casey Watson (not verified)

For mandriva 2005 the following did the trick.

urpmi kdelibs-devel

by Cassio Lima (not verified)

I tryed the mandriva 2005 trick (above) and it didn't work. Urpmi says no package named kdelibs-devel. I'm having the same issue. What can I do?

by Angelo (not verified)

se hai mandriva 2006 installa libkde4-devel

by Tim (not verified)

I am having the same problem in redhat 7.3 (trying to install apollon-0.9.3) . so, as much as i hate trying to use rpms, I tried installing kdebase-devel-3.0.0.....rpm . This needs kdebase and kdebase needs about 30 other things which I dont believe.
error: Failed dependencies:
lm_sensors is needed by kdebase-3.0.0-12
libcrypto.so.2 is needed by kdebase-3.0.0-12
libDCOP-gcc2.96.so.4 is needed by kdebase-3.0.0-12
libkabc-gcc2.96.so.1 is needed by kdebase-3.0.0-12
libkatepartinterfaces-gcc2.96.so is needed by kdebas . . . . .

I have been building things myself for a while would this have anything to do with it?

by wissasm (not verified)

I have the same probleme with kde please check me the solution .I need the solution quickly please i can't works without the solutions .I use Debian 3.0 please help me

by Søren J (not verified)

This should do the trick ./configure --prefix=`kde-config --prefix`