[KDE] KDE/Koffice Install made easy for everyone
This is nota working with Diablo, and will not be updated, please use boot from SD installers
Boot from SD is the preferred method of installing KDE. DEB to make your system boot from SD http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ad.php?t=19639 DEB to install KDE, if you are booted from SD http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ad.php?t=19675 ____________________ [SIZE="4"]This install is only for people who are not booting thier OS from SD/MMC, for those running from SD/MMC see above [SIZE] This took quite a bit a playing around on my end, but it appears to be working well. There are two changes that installing and removing this software leave behind. NOTE: This is the same software in the tarball, so no need to run out and upgrade. Newer KDESUP should be coming soon. Testing this has only been done on my device (n800) running 2008OS-50-2. Lets start be first saying that the reason I made this is because of the overwhelming requests for KDE in a DEB. KDE can not be made into a deb easily, so this install is itself a hack. The main goal for this is to provide a way to install and run KDE without having to know anything about sd/mmc cards and partitioning. The second goal for this is to provide a way to remove or uninstall KDE. This took quite a bit a playing around on my end, but it appears to be working well. NOTICE There are two changes that installing and removing this software leave behind. It will add ALL=ALL NOPASSWD for user in /etc/sudoers and it will remove /usr/sbin/docpurge. 1) I did not want to try to remove the ALL=ALL and end up possibly leaving a device not working because of a messed up sudoers file. If you want to, you can remove this line manually. remove this line --> "user ALL = (ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL" (its echoed in to /etc/sudoers during install) 2) docpurge is a useless script someone at maemo wrote to remove documentation from /usr/share/doc and other locations. CUPS (cups printing package) html website resides in /usr/share/doc so not removing this renders CUPS inoperable. /usr/sbin/docpurge is moved to /usr/sbin/docpurge-orig during install of kde-mmcX NOTICE, First of all, lets be clear. KDE on n800 or n810 is a hack, and for now it should be treated as such. This may cause you to end up reflashing and lose data (Just to cover my butt) (poop happens) INSTALL INSTRUCTIONS PREREQUISITE 2GB or bigger MMC/SD card formatted FAT (formatted in windows) In order to install you need 2GB free space Copy the install files to your 2GB mmc/sd card MMC1 http://www.tablethacker.com/software/local-mmc1.deb http://www.tablethacker.com/software/kde-3.5.8-mmc1.deb http://www.tablethacker.com/software/kdesup-3.5.8.deb http://www.tablethacker.com/software/KDE358.tar.bz2 Click here to Donate MMC2 http://www.tablethacker.com/software/local-mmc2.deb http://www.tablethacker.com/software/kde-3.5.8-mmc2.deb http://www.tablethacker.com/software/kdesup-3.5.8.deb http://www.tablethacker.com/software/KDE358.tar.bz2 EDIT ______________ My hosting site is #@$%#@$ up, files you guys are downloading are becoming corrupted. PLEASE VERIFY FILE SIZES, this can me seen with in xterm ls -l /media/mmc1 (or mmc2) 308317552 KDE358.tar.bz2 308126 kde-3.5.8-mmc1.deb 308122 kde-3.5.8-mmc2.deb 21260684 kdesup-3.5.8.deb 510560 local-mmc1.deb 510548 local-mmc2.deb ______________ Now to install them, using application manager and install them in this order. local-mmc1.deb (install time about 8 minutes on mine) kde-3.5.8-mmc1.deb (install time about 20-30 minutes) kdesup-3.5.8.deb (Install time about < 1 minute) local-mmc2.deb (install time about 8 minutes on mine) kde-3.5.8-mmc2.deb (install time about 20-30 minutes) kdesup-3.5.8.deb (Install time about < 1 minute) Now start KDE from extra's menu. You can delete the deb and the tar.bz2 file from your mmc/sd card. DO NOT DELETE local.img or swap.img swap.img is swapspace local.img is /usr/local ext2 filesystem FAQ Quote:
As I stated in my original post THIS IS A HACK. I am offering you an experience I can't promise perfection, but I will try to help you if you have any probelms as well as others. The worst case scenario is you you have to reflash your tablet, the best case, your printing webpages and emails in about an hour. ---> CLICK HERE TO DONATE <--- |
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Nice work!
Has the font issue been solved? When I installed KDE, the fonts on MicroB were changed, possibly broken. |
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Great stuff PB! ;)
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As I said, this is the SAME as the tarball, so no changes have been made to SUP.tgz, kdesup-3.5.8.deb is the same. There is a problem, where the fonts change in microb after installing KDE. This does not stop microb from working, but the fonts are a tad bit smaller. I will be working on resolving that, but this was just a way to allow people to install the already available KDE version. |
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You rock...
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If I want to unistall it and fix the problem with MicroB, what should I do?
Thanks in advance! |
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I run into problems on installing this...
The first install file did go fine. When I started the second one Application manager said after about a minute that was unable to install. Application manager now refuses to uninstall it too! (It says in log: dpkg: error processing kde-mmc2 (--remove): Package is in very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal. Of course... reinstall does not work... Originally I copied all files into the memory card in "softs" subfolder. Should all files have been in the root directory? Well... I was about to do fresh flash on this N800 anyway... :rolleyes: EDIT: It looks like there is some conflicts with Kagu? :confused: |
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The files have to be in /media/mmcX You dont need to do fresh flash. kde-3.5.8 only install tar and bzip2, it should update if you place the tarball in the correct location, please try again, let me know? |
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Testing now, I didn't think about that. I will let you know |
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EDIT: I already reflashed the N800 and continue installing from step 2... so far (after about 10 minutes) so good. (Isn't it nice to have two N800's, so keep one in "working" order and use the other for all kind of experiments... :D) |
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