KDE .debs!

I really should limit my posts per day... (So much interesting activity, though!)




Well, here it is, what you've been waiting for: KDE on your internet tablet with no partitioning or extra tools required. Yep. That's right, KDE, Koffice, and CUPS are now as easy as opening the application manager. Here's the announcement and directions from Penguinbait:


"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. 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

or

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


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"

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