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Robert Sederholm
Asked: 2012-03-01 20:10:35 +0800 CST

Install SmoothTasks in Kubuntu / general tarball installation help

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I'm trying to install SmoothTasks - it's a KDE taskbar resembling Windows 7. I can't figure how to install it. I know it's an easy question for someone who knows, but it would help me very much to finally understand tarball installation and how to finally pull one through.

software-installation kubuntu 11.10

1 Answers

  1. Repositories

    Many applications are in the official repositories. SmoothTasks is a plasma widget: http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=plasma-widget-smooth-tasks&searchon=names&suite=oneiric&section=all

    PPA

    https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ppas

    Searching the plasma-widget-smooth-tasks: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ppas?name_filter=plasma-widget-smooth-tasks

    Building from the sources

    A start point: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CompilingSoftware or https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CompilingEasyHowTo

    Generic plasmoid build

    From a plasmoid README file:

    cd /where/your/applet/is/decompressed

    mkdir build

    cd build

    cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX='kde4-config --prefix' ..

    make

    sudo make install

    Different KDE versions. KDE 4.7 vs KDE 4.8

    http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthread.php?56838-SOLVED-When-plasma-widget-smooth-tasks-will-be-available

    Build depencies

    Q:

    I tried installing on KDE 4.7, then on KDE 4.8. Both give me missing dependency reports (if you need to see them I'll post them)

    A:

    The base package for the building:

    • build-essential

    If you have this package installed, you only need to install whatever a package specifies as its build-time dependencies to build the package.

    From the official Ubuntu package: plasma-widget-smooth-tasks/debian/control; Build-Depends:

    • gettext
    • kde-workspace-dev
    • libx11-dev
    • cmake
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