x11/kde4 tries to install kde3?

Josh Carroll josh.carroll at gmail.com
Fri Aug 8 14:26:57 UTC 2008


On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Kirk Strauser <kirk at strauser.com> wrote:
> When attempting to install KDE4, I get:
>
> $ cd /usr/ports/x11/kde4
> $ sudo make install
> ===>  Installing for kde-3.5.8_2
> [...]
> ===>  Checking if x11/kde4 already installed
> ===>   kde-3.5.8_2 is already installed
> [...]
> Stop in /usr/ports/x11/kde4.
>
> I installed on this hardware about two weeks ago, so it should be fairly
> clean of any weird legacy settings.  Has anyone else successfully installed
> KDE4 on FreeBSD 7?

KDE4 is not yet available. The x11/kde4 and x11/kde4base port
skeletons were created, but as far as I know, kde 4 isn't quite ready.

If you look at x11/kdebase4, you'll see that it still references KDE 3.5.8:

# cat /usr/ports/x11/kdebase4/distinfo
MD5 (KDE/kdebase-3.5.8.tar.bz2) = 9990c669229daaaa8fca4c5e354441fd
SHA256 (KDE/kdebase-3.5.8.tar.bz2) =
0f1876d1c68f01ed8fee346c1bae4f53dd2c1dc56db94e309b3d1adfc6138493
SIZE (KDE/kdebase-3.5.8.tar.bz2) = 24200172

# grep '^PORTVERSION' /usr/ports/x11/kdebase4/Makefile
PORTVERSION=    ${KDE_VERSION}

# grep KDE_VERSION /usr/ports/Mk/*
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.kde.mk:KDE_VERSION=           3.5.8
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.kde.mk:KDE_ORIGVER=   ${KDE_VERSION}
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.kde4.mk:KDE_VERSION=          3.5.8
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.kde4.mk:KDE_ORIGVER=  ${KDE_VERSION}

Soon now, I think. But it's not quite ready.

Josh


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