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# kdeutils 3.5.1
# ==============
# Slackware 8.1's 'kdeutils' 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 kdeutils, 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
# Perl
# Qt >= 3.3.2
# kdelibs
# aRts
# libxml2 >= 2.4.8 (recommended)
# libxslt >= 1.0.7 (recommended)
# doxygen (optional; for docs)
# gmp (optional?)
# tpctl (optional; for ThinkPads)
# libpbb (optional; for PowerBooks)
# net-snmp (optional)
# Python (optional)
# xmms (optional)
# Ghostscript (recommended)
# 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/kdeutils-3.5.1.tar.bz2 &&
mv installed/kde/kdeutils-3.5.1.tar.bz2 .
test -f installed/kdeutils-3.5.1.tar.bz2 &&
mv installed/kdeutils-3.5.1.tar.bz2 .
test ! -f kdeutils-3.5.1.tar.bz2 &&
wget http://download.kde.org/stable/3.5.1/src/\
kdeutils-3.5.1.tar.bz2

# Verify tarball w/ md5sum:
echo "1286c6a09b04452adfe492de2fad79bd kdeutils-3.5.1.tar.bz2" | \
md5sum -c

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

# Become root to install it
su

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