compiling kwin for kubuntu the quick way?

[Harald Sitter]

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 4:36 AM, pansz <pan.shizhu at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 3:49 AM, Donatas G. <dgvirtual at akl.lt> wrote:
>> apt-get source kde-workspace
>> apt-get build-dep kde-workspace
>> cd kde-workspace
>> <apply patch>
>
> probabaly the more official way to compile "apt-get source" package is
> : dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc
> you need to have installed fakeroot.
>
> After compile you could just find the kwin executable and cp kwin to /usr/bin.

Very true. Except that will take 6 hours and is what Donatas wanted to avoid :)