Wednesday February 06, 2008 Installing Studio Built KDE 3.4.3 w/script
Ok, KDE is getting going and KDE 4 is at least compiling on OpenSolaris, but we have a ways to go before we have a usable system.
In the meantime, I have a script that I created to help install KDE 3.4.3 from the Sunfreeware site, since it is available to anyone on the inet, to pull the Studio built KDE 3.4.3 and install on your computer. I realize this is a bit dated, but it is the most recent build we have that was done with Sun's Studio compiler. This is important if you plan to use plugins, since most plugins (including flash and java) are compiled with Sun Studio. Because of this, you can't use those plugins with a gcc built KDE, AFAIK.
It is possible that an error in the user/group for KDEkderequired-343 will warn you of the error, but you can tell it to continue. I added in an additional argument to pkgadd, passing a -n, but not sure if that will supress the warning or not, and don't have time to retest...This should help at least get the packages and get this installed, even if you need to tell the script to continue.
You can get the script at this link. Let me know if you try it and how it works for you.
*** DISCLAIMER ***
This script doesn't have much error checking, and it is possible that if you break out of the script that it will download duplicates and the matching names won't be valid files.
This script also assumes that you have installed en_US.UTF-8, so if you use a different flavor of UTF-8, change to suite.
Also, this is for x86/amd64, so if you have a sparc box, change the script to suit.
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