compiling lightdm-kde greeter

[O. Sinclair]

On 07/06/2012 21:45, Clay Weber wrote:
> "O. Sinclair" <o.sinclair at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     On 07/06/2012 12:43, Clay Weber wrote:
>
>         On Thursday, June 07, 2012 10:16:53 AM O. Sinclair wrote:
>
>             Am on Kubuntu 11.10 and want to try out lighdm-kde greeter.
>             Have found
>             the git and cloned it - but am stuck at how to compile, what
>             input
>             parameters and packages are needed.
>
>             Anyone has a clue or I am stuck with KDM until I (again)
>             upgrade to
>             12.04 (not before KDE SC 4.9 is in repos).
>
>             Kind regards,
>             Sinclair
>
>
>         It is in the Precise repos, you can install it without compiling
>         , no ppa
>         needed:
>
>         lightdm-kde-greeter
>
>
>     As I stated in the first sentence I am back on Oneiric and will stay
>     there until KDE moves to 4.9 and is in the Precise repos. And I read
>     some good reviews of it. KDEPIM 4.8.3 felt like one big regression from
>     4.7.4 and I use KDEPIM extensively.
>
>     I downloaded the package from Precise but as can be expected it has
>     dependencies Oneiric can not fulfill. The PPA is outdated and I have not
>     managed to get it to work so I want to try the git code.
>
>     Kindly
>     Sinclair
>
>
> Sorry, I simply got my numbers names mixed up. My apologies.
>
> What steps have you done so far? If you haven't already you should
> install build-essential and kdelibs5, as well as cmake if that is not
> pulled in. Not being near a computer atm I would think that running
> $ sudo apt-get build-dep lightdm will be necessary as well.
>
> Off the top of my head the only issues you may have dependency wise
> would be if the greeter requires some kde qt or lightdm version that is
> newer than what is in oneiric, but that probably is fine.
>
> Just to be forewarned, kdepim might not have many updates when KDE
> releases 4.9 as it normally has it's own release schedule.
>
> I also am not positive if 4.9 will make it into the normal repos for
> 12.04, though it will make it into a ppa. We don't normally get major
> point releases from the one in each version, but as 12.04 is a 5 year
> LTS, that may be up in the air.
> --
Thanks for advice Clay. I have all the build essentials and cmake, it is 
during cmake it goes bonkers. May try again, for now I shelve it. Tried 
the outdated ppa and and that was not a good experience.

As for KDEPIM they have a 4.9 version "in trunk" so it should form part 
of KDE SC 4.9. And Kubuntu has a history of at least putting it in one 
of the kubuntu ppa's so I hope for that. Will wait and see. Another 
issue I have with 12.04 is that suddenly hibernation stopped working, 
even after going through recommended steps to bring it back (it is 
disabled by default). And a Remastersys copy I made would for the first 
time not get things "back to normal" after I made on experiment too many 
and reinstalled with my Remastersys iso.

So far not impressed by this LTS actually.

Sinclair