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Wikiuser: Added page about Tdeutils, TDE and Slackware 14.0

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Added page about Tdeutils, 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_utils Italiano]

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== TDEUTILS ==
[[En/trinity_desktop_environment#Base_Packages]]

The '''TDE Utilities''' package contains many common use applications built for the '''Trinity Desktop Environment'''. Those applications permit to execute common tasks like file compression / decompression, or easy configuration management tasks like printer setup and printer queues monitoring. Some of the applications are listed below:
*'''ark''': An archiving tool.
*'''irkick''': The infrared remote control service.
*'''kcalc''': A calculator.
*'''kcharselect''': A character selector.
*'''kdessh''': Run commands on a remote host through a SSH connection.
*'''kdf''': Graphically display disk utilization.
*'''kedit''': An easy text editor.
*'''kfloppy''': A floppy disk formatting utility.
*'''kgpg''': Graphical interface to GnuPG.
*'''khexedit''': Hexadecimal editor.
*'''kjots''': Manages short notes and messages.
*'''kregexpeditor''': A graphical regular expression editor.
*'''ktimer''': Execute a command line with a preset delay in seconds.
*'''kwalletmanager''': A password manager.
*'''kwikdisk''': Shares the same function of kdf, but its window is smaller and better suited for persistent monitoring.
Tdeutils '''replaces the old kdeutils package for KDE3'''.

== Tdeutils and Slackware ==

Tdeutils is a replacement for kdeutils as a consequence the latter one build script can be used as a template for the former. The build system has not been ported to '''[http://www.cmake.org cmake]''' yet and still relies on '''autotools''', but some updates were anyway needed to '''adapt the kdeutils 3.5 build script to tdeutils'''. Accordingly to the project guidelines '''/opt/trinity''' was configured as root directory for the package instead of '''/usr'''. The source code extracted from the archive lacks some configuration files needed by the build procedure. The missing files were created running command '''make''' in the source code root directory. Last '''a patch was applied''' to '''solve a libtool release inconsistency''' between the source code expected version, 2.2.6, and the Slackware 14.0 installed one: 2.4.2. 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 with the proper option list. Option '''--enable-closure''' is the only peculiarity for the package:
# 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 \
'''--enable-closure''' \
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/tdeutils.tar.gz link]. The output package can be installed by mean of 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://utils.kde.org KDE Utilities page]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kdeutils Wikipedia KDE Utilities related page]

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+{{header_en|title=Building an Utils package for TDE| keyword={{Template:keyword_en_tde}}| description=Building, installing and configuring a working Utils package for TDE and Slackware Linux | link_page=TDE_tdeutils}}
 == TDEUTILS ==
-[[En/trinity_desktop_environment#Base_Packages]]
+[[En/trinity_desktop_environment#Base_Packages | TDE - Base Packages]]
 The '''TDE Utilities''' package contains many common use applications built for the '''Trinity Desktop Environment'''. Those applications permit to execute common tasks like file compression / decompression, or easy configuration management tasks like printer setup and printer queues monitoring. Some of the applications are listed below:
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 *'''kwikdisk''': Shares the same function of kdf, but its window is smaller and better suited for persistent monitoring.
 Tdeutils '''replaces the old kdeutils package for KDE3'''.
 == Tdeutils and Slackware ==
-Tdeutils is a replacement for kdeutils as a consequence the latter one build script can be used as a template for the former. The build system has not been ported to '''[http://www.cmake.org cmake]''' yet and still relies on '''autotools''', but some updates were anyway needed to '''adapt the kdeutils 3.5 build script to tdeutils'''. Accordingly to the project guidelines '''/opt/trinity''' was configured as root directory for the package instead of '''/usr'''. The source code extracted from the archive lacks some configuration files needed by the build procedure. The missing files were created running command '''make''' in the source code root directory. Last '''a patch was applied''' to '''solve a libtool release inconsistency''' between the source code expected version, 2.2.6, and the Slackware 14.0 installed one: 2.4.2. Some script lines of code and related comments follow.
+Tdeutils is a replacement for kdeutils as a consequence the latter one build script can be used as a template for the former. The build system has not been ported to '''[http://www.cmake.org cmake]''' yet and still relies on '''autotools''', but some updates were anyway needed to '''adapt the kdeutils 3.5 build script to tdeutils'''. Accordingly to the project guidelines ''/opt/trinity'' was configured as root directory for the package instead of '''/usr'''. The source code extracted from the archive lacks some configuration files needed by the build procedure. The missing files were created running command '''make''' in the source code root directory. Last '''a patch was applied''' to '''solve a libtool release inconsistency''' between the source code expected version, 2.2.6, and the Slackware 14.0 installed one: 2.4.2. 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 \
 >&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 with the proper option list. Option '''--enable-closure''' is the only peculiarity for the package:
     # Configure the package
     LDFLAGS="${SLKLDFLAGS}" \
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        --with-qt-libraries=${PREFIX}/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX} \
        --disable-rpath \
-       '''--enable-closure''' \
+       --enable-closure \
 >&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://utils.kde.org KDE Utilities page]
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-Languages: '''English''' - [http://www.giustetti.net/wiki/index.php?title=TDE_tdeutils Italiano]
+{{footer_en | link_page=TDE_tdeutils}}