Other Ways to Build the KDE SC

You don't always have to build the KDE SC from bare sources. Many pre-packaged builds of the KDE SC are available. This chapter will focus on installing KDE SC from the git master without compiling it from sources.

Project Neon

The wonderful Project Neon team provides daily builds of the KDE SC for developers using Kubuntu. Project Neon installs binaries and libraries in /opt/project-neon/, which gives you a sandboxed installation of the master KDE SC alongside your stable KDE SC installation.

Get Project Neon from its Launchpad home page : https://launchpad.net/~neon. You can install the packages using the following command:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:neon/ppa && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install project-neon-base

 More information on Project Neon can be found at:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kubuntu/ProjectNeon

http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Using_Project_Neon_to_contribute_to_KDE

openSUSE

This GNU/Linux distribution provides frequent snapshots of the KDE SC master. The target is to provide snapshots on a weekly basis, but this is not always possible. These packages may not always include openSUSE specific patches, and are not available for the oldest openSUSE releases. You must add the core packages repository to use Extra or Unstable:Playground.

Version: 11.4

Core packages: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Unstable:/SC/openSUSE_11.4/

Released applications: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/UpdatedApps/openSUSE_11.4/

Extra: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Extra/openSUSE_11.4_KDE_Unstable_SC/

Unstable:Playground: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Unstable:/Playground/openSUSE_11.4_KDE_Unstable_SC/

 

Version: 11.3

Core packages: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Unstable:/SC/openSUSE_11.3/

Released applications: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/UpdatedApps/openSUSE_11.3/

Extra: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Extra/openSUSE_11.3_KDE_Unstable_SC/

Unstable:Playground: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Unstable:/Playground/openSUSE_11.3_KDE_Unstable_SC/

 

Version: Factory

Core packages: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Unstable:/SC/openSUSE_Factory/

Released applications: Use the application packages from openSUSE:Factory

Extra: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Extra/openSUSE_Factory_KDE_Unstable_SC/

Unstable:Playground: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Unstable:/Playground/openSUSE_Factory_KDE_Unstable_SC/

You can find  more information about openSUSE's master KDE builds at:

 http://en.opensuse.org/KDE_repositories#Unstable:SC_aka._KUSC_.28KDE_trunk.29