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KDE 4 for Solaris

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Wednesday, December 9th 2009, 9:53pm

KDE 4 for Solaris

I would really like to install KDE 4.3 on my SUN SPARC station running Solaris 10, but can't find the binaries. Yes, I know I can spend the next week or more of my time downloading compilers, downloading source code, checking out all the dependencies, and so on. But really - should I have to? What kind of efficiency is this - to expect each person who wants to use KDE to have to do all that? Surely one person has done that. Why can't they share that with others? Chances are they ran on an OS built by someone else, used compilers built by someone else and so on. Can you imagine having to build you own compilers and OS?

I saw there is a group dedicated to providing KDE 4 for Solaris. They have a website to report their progress. But no binaries?

Has anyone compiled KDE 4 for Solaris? Can it be done?

Please help!
Roger
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Monday, January 11th 2010, 10:42am

RE: KDE 4 for Solaris

Hi,
binaries are only available for OpenSolaris/x86 at the moment.
There's one guy working on the S10/x86 port and recently he managed to make kdelibs building.
There's another guy working on the Sparc port, but he's not commiting his work to the KDE-Solaris project repository right now.
The discussions are happening at http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=187 and at #kde4-solaris, you should probably go there to learn more.

HTH

hajma

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I saw there is a group dedicated to providing KDE 4 for Solaris. They have a website to report their progress. But no binaries?

Has anyone compiled KDE 4 for Solaris? Can it be done?

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