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# kdeaddons 3.5.1
# ===============
# Slackware 8.1's 'kdeaddons' 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 howto for more info.

# If you ever want to uninstall kdeaddons, 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
# libpng
# libjpeg
# perl
# Qt >= 3.3.2
# kdelibs
# aRts
# OpenSSL (optional?)
# SDL >= 1.2.0 (optional?
# Ghostscript Recommended
# libxml2 >= 2.4.8 Recommended
# libxslt >= 1.0.7 Recommended
# gPhoto 2 >= 2.0.1 Optional
# Ogg Vorbis 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/kdeaddons-3.5.1.tar.bz2 &&
mv installed/kde/kdeaddons-3.5.1.tar.bz2 .
test -f installed/kdeaddons-3.5.1.tar.bz2 &&
mv installed/kdeaddons-3.5.1.tar.bz2 .
test ! -f kdeaddons-3.5.1.tar.bz2 &&
wget http://download.kde.org/stable/3.5.1/src/\
kdeaddons-3.5.1.tar.bz2

# Verify tarball w/ md5sum:
echo "cbd2a6f65ae7338736d93b72bfdf5ae3 kdeaddons-3.5.1.tar.bz2" | \
md5sum -c

find src/kde src -maxdepth 1 -type d -name "kdeaddons-*" \
-exec rm -r {} \;
cd src/kde
tar xjvf ~/kdeaddons-3.5.1.tar.bz2
cd kdeaddons-3.5.1
test $UID = 0 && chown -R root:root .

# I had to pass --without-sdl to prevent it from failing to build in
# noatun-plugins/synaescope/ because of errors like this one:
# /opt/kde/lib/libartsmodules.so: undefined reference to `virtual thunk to
# Arts::SynthModule_stub::streamInit()'

./configure --prefix=/opt/kde --disable-debug \
--with-ssl-dir=/usr/local/ssl --without-sdl
make

# make stopped for me unable to find openssl/openssl.h, I ran this,
# then just plain 'make' again
( cd kfile-plugins/cert ; make CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/ssl/include )

# Become root to install it
su

test -x /sbin/removepkg && /sbin/removepkg kdeaddons
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/kdeaddons-*.tar.* \
installed/kdeaddons-*.tar.*
mv kdeaddons-3.5.1.tar.bz2 installed/kde/