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Wikiuser at 14:05, 21 March 2022

2022-03-21T14:05:47Z

Wikiuser: Page updated to new template

2016-12-21T17:43:30Z

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Wikiuser: Added page about Ktorrent, TDE and Slackware 14.0

2014-07-09T16:36:10Z

Added page about Ktorrent, TDE and Slackware 14.0

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Welcome to Simone Giustetti's wiki pages.

Languages: '''English''' - [http://www.giustetti.net/wiki/index.php?title=TDE_ktorrent Italiano]

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== KTORRENT ==
[[En/trinity_desktop_environment#Applications]]

'''Ktorrent''' is a '''BitTorrent''' client for the '''Trinity Desktop Environment'''. It enables users to download files through the BitTorrent protocol, frequently used by Linux distributions to share ISO images of their install media. '''Ktorrent''' can download many files at once, configure bandwidth utilization limiting the whole client or specific torrents, manage a download queue, block or filter peers and much more. The program is features rich and can be further enhanced installing plug-ins. The release used in this paper is the '''TEDE''' compatible one. '''Ktorrent was successfully ported to KDE release 4''': to use Ktorrent 4 specific features, please refer to the official [http://ktorrent.pwsp.net home page].

== Ktorrent and Slackware ==

'''A Ktorrent official package has been part of Slackware for many releases''', usually included in the KDE release 3 or 4 directory. The official SlackBuild script was used as an example to write one suitable for the 3.5.13.2 release of TDE. The project rules and conventions were strictly followed:
* Directory '''/opt/trinity''' was set as package root directory.
* Some missing makefiles were created running the '''make''' command from inside the main directory of the code extracted from the source archive.
* The source code '''was patched''' in order to '''solve a version mismatch issue with libtool''': the source code was configured for release 2.2.6, but 2.4.2 is installed along Slackware 14.0.
* No specific option was issued through the '''configure''' command as no one seems needed.

Some script lines of code and related comments follow.

Some configuration scripts required by the build procedure are missing from the source tarball. We create the makefiles using the make command:
# Prepare the package for building (Create the configure script).
echo "(II) admin makefile run here" >> ${OUTPUT}/${PRGNAM}_configure.log
make -f admin/Makefile.common \
2>&1 | tee -a ${OUTPUT}/${PRGNAM}_configure.log
A patch is needed to solve a '''libtool''' package version mismatch conflict:
# Patch the admin/ltmain.sh script in order to solve a version mismatch.
patch -p0 -i ${SRCDIR}/ltmain_version_update.patch
'''The script specifically sets Qt libraries paths''' in order for other scripts to find them at build time:
# Add temporary paths to handle new libraries during build
export QTDIR=/opt/trinity
export PATH=/opt/trinity/bin:/usr/bin:$PATH
export LIBDIR=/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX}
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX}:/opt/trinity/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX}
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=:/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX}/pkgconfig:/opt/trinity/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX}/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH
Finally the script runs the '''./configure''' command to configure source code in accordance to the destination environment:
# Configure the package
LDFLAGS="${SLKLDFLAGS}" \
CFLAGS="${SLKCFLAGS}" \
CXXFLAGS="${SLKCFLAGS}" \
../${PRGNAM}-${VERSION}/configure \
--prefix=${PREFIX} \
--sysconfdir="/etc/trinity" \
--libdir=${LIBDIR} \
--mandir=${PREFIX}/man \
--with-qt-dir=${QTDIR} \
--with-qt-includes=${PREFIX}/include \
--with-qt-libraries=${PREFIX}/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX} \
--disable-rpath \
2>&1 | tee -a ${OUTPUT}/${PRGNAM}_configure.log
Once the configuration successfully concludes, the script runs the make command then goes on with packaging the software.

A full script can be downloaded from the following [http://www.giustetti.net/resource/slackbuild/tde/35132/ktorrent.tar.gz link]. The output package can be installed using command '''installpkg''' as usual in Slackware Linux.

For any feedback, questions, errors and such, please e-mail me at ''studiosg [at] giustetti [dot] net''

External Links
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* [http://www.trinitydesktop.org/wiki/bin/view/Developers/HowToBuild TDE build guide]
* [http://ktorrent.pwsp.net Ktorrent home page]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KTorrent Ktorrent Wikipedia page]
* [http://www.kde.org/applications/internet/ktorrent/ Ktorrent KDE4 page]

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Languages: '''English''' - [http://www.giustetti.net/wiki/index.php?title=TDE_ktorrent Italiano]

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-Welcome to Simone Giustetti's wiki pages.
+{{header_en|title=Building Ktorrent for TDE| keyword={{Template:keyword_en_tde}}| description=Building, installing and configuring a working Ktorrent package for TDE and Slackware Linux | link_page=TDE_ktorrent}}
 == KTORRENT ==
-[[En/trinity_desktop_environment#Applications]]
+[[En/trinity_desktop_environment#Applications | TDE - Applications]]
 '''Ktorrent''' is a '''BitTorrent''' client for the '''Trinity Desktop Environment'''. It enables users to download files through the BitTorrent protocol, frequently used by Linux distributions to share ISO images of their install media. '''Ktorrent''' can download many files at once, configure bandwidth utilization limiting the whole client or specific torrents, manage a download queue, block or filter peers and much more. The program is features rich and can be further enhanced installing plug-ins. The release used in this paper is the '''TEDE''' compatible one. '''Ktorrent was successfully ported to KDE release 4''': to use Ktorrent 4 specific features, please refer to the official [http://ktorrent.pwsp.net home page].
 == Ktorrent and Slackware ==
 '''A Ktorrent official package has been part of Slackware for many releases''', usually included in the KDE release 3 or 4 directory. The official SlackBuild script was used as an example to write one suitable for the 3.5.13.2 release of TDE. The project rules and conventions were strictly followed:
-* Directory '''/opt/trinity''' was set as package root directory.
+* Directory ''/opt/trinity'' was set as package root directory.
 * Some missing makefiles were created running the '''make''' command from inside the main directory of the code extracted from the source archive.
 * The source code '''was patched''' in order to '''solve a version mismatch issue with libtool''': the source code was configured for release 2.2.6, but 2.4.2 is installed along Slackware 14.0.
@@ Line 22: / Line 18: @@
 Some configuration scripts required by the build procedure are missing from the source tarball. We create the makefiles using the make command:
     # Prepare the package for building (Create the configure script).
     echo "(II) admin makefile run here" >> ${OUTPUT}/${PRGNAM}_configure.log
     make -f admin/Makefile.common \
 >&1 | tee -a ${OUTPUT}/${PRGNAM}_configure.log
 A patch is needed to solve a '''libtool''' package version mismatch conflict:
     # Patch the admin/ltmain.sh script in order to solve a version mismatch.
     patch -p0 -i ${SRCDIR}/ltmain_version_update.patch
 '''The script specifically sets Qt libraries paths''' in order for other scripts to find them at build time:
     # Add temporary paths to handle new libraries during build
     export QTDIR=/opt/trinity
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     export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX}:/opt/trinity/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX}
     export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=:/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX}/pkgconfig:/opt/trinity/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX}/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH
 Finally the script runs the '''./configure''' command to configure source code in accordance to the destination environment:
     # Configure the package
     LDFLAGS="${SLKLDFLAGS}" \
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     --disable-rpath \
 >&1 | tee -a ${OUTPUT}/${PRGNAM}_configure.log
 Once the configuration successfully concludes, the script runs the make command then goes on with packaging the software.
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 External Links
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 * [http://www.trinitydesktop.org/wiki/bin/view/Developers/HowToBuild TDE build guide]
 * [http://ktorrent.pwsp.net Ktorrent home page]
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-Languages: '''English''' - [http://www.giustetti.net/wiki/index.php?title=TDE_ktorrent Italiano]
+{{footer_en | link_page=TDE_ktorrent}}