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# kdepim 3.5.1
# ============
# Slackware 8.1's 'kdepim' package includes version 3.0.1, 9.0's includes
# 3.1, 9.1's includes 3.1.4, 10.0's includes 3.2.3, 10.1's includes 3.3.2,
# and 10.2's includes 3.4.2
#
# Slackware 10.2 includes KDE 3.4.2

# Check out my KDE 3.5 howto for more info.

# If you ever want to uninstall kdepim, cd into the source directory, run
# 'make uninstall' (as root), remove the source directory, and remove the
# tarball.

# Prerequisites:
# gawk
# sed
# grep
# gettext
# XFree86 or X.org
# zlib >= 1.1
# libpng
# libjpeg (recommended)
# Perl
# Qt >= 3.3.2
# kdelibs
# aRts
# libxml2 >= 2.4.8 (recommended)
# libxslt >= 1.0.7 (recommended)
# flex
# doxygen (optional; for docs)
# libgnokii (optional; for Addressbook mobile phone import/export)
# boost
# OpenSSL >= 0.9.6 (recommended)
# Cyrus SASL (recommended)
# pilot-link (recommended)
# libmal >= 0.20 (optional; for AvantGo conduit)
# bison
# GPGME >= 0.4.5
# GnuPG >= 1.2.5 (recommended)
# GpgSM (optional; for S/MIME with KMail)
# Ghostscript (recommended)
# MySQL and/or PostgreSQL and/or unixODBC (recommended)
# libldap (optional)
# freetype >= 2.0.0 (recommended)

# I create a directory for KDE source directories and one for tarballs and
# put all of them in there
mkdir -p -m 0700 ~/src/kde ~/installed/kde

cd
test -f installed/kde/kdepim-3.5.1.tar.bz2 &&
mv installed/kde/kdepim-3.5.1.tar.bz2 .
test -f installed/kdepim-3.5.1.tar.bz2 &&
mv installed/kdepim-3.5.1.tar.bz2 .
test ! -f kdepim-3.5.1.tar.bz2 &&
wget http://download.kde.org/stable/3.5.1/src/\
kdepim-3.5.1.tar.bz2

# Verify tarball w/ md5sum:
echo "8e87c9cbe1f0c0f983f94d804a5bc8f9 kdepim-3.5.1.tar.bz2" | \
md5sum -c

find src/kde src -maxdepth 1 -type d -name "kdepim-*" \
-exec rm -r {} \;
cd src/kde
tar xjvf ~/kdepim-3.5.1.tar.bz2
cd kdepim-3.5.1
test $UID = 0 && chown -R root:root .
./configure --prefix=/opt/kde --disable-debug \
--with-boost-includedir=/usr/local/include/boost \
--with-ssl-dir=/usr/local/ssl
make

# Become root to install it
su

test -x /sbin/removepkg && /sbin/removepkg kdepim
make install

# Add /opt/kde/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf if it's not already in there:
grep "^/opt/kde/lib$" /etc/ld.so.conf > /dev/null 2>&1 ||
echo "/opt/kde/lib" >> /etc/ld.so.conf
ldconfig

# Create a /etc/profile.d/kde.sh
cat << EOF > /etc/profile.d/kde.sh
#!/bin/sh
KDEDIR=/opt/kde
PATH="\$PATH:\$KDEDIR/bin"
MANPATH="\$MANPATH:\$KDEDIR/man"
export KDEDIR PATH MANPATH
EOF
chmod 755 /etc/profile.d/kde.sh

# Become yourself again
exit

# Update your non-root shell
echo $PATH | grep -q "/opt/kde/bin" ||
export PATH="$PATH:/opt/kde/bin"
echo $MANPATH | grep -q "/opt/kde/man" ||
export MANPATH="$MANPATH:/opt/kde/man"

cd
rm -f installed/kde/kdepim-*.tar.* \
installed/kdepim-*.tar.*
mv kdepim-3.5.1.tar.bz2 installed/kde/