Welcome to the FreeBSD KDE4 Installation Page
Before you start, make sure that you have read the Preparations section.
Preparation
- Make sure you have a fresh ports tree
Make sure your ports are all up to date [http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html]
- Make sure multimedia/libxine is built with xcb support
- To avoid loosing KDE3 configuration files, make sure to backup $HOME/.kde, $HOME/.config, $HOME/.cache, and $HOME/.local.
- KDE4 requires Qt 4.4.1. You have to update all your qt-4.3.4 packages before installing KDE4 (see Installation instructions).
Installation
If you want to install KDE 4.1 try
ports/x11/kde4/ && make install clean.
Problem and Bug Reports
- Before you send mail about problems, please make sure you don't send a duplicate report.
Please search the archive of the kde-freebsd mailinglist. http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-freebsd/
Known Problems:
Tips and Tricks
ATI/Nvidia Peformance
- We know about bad performance problems. So, before you flame,
Starting KDE4
- Using KDM.
- You can use your kdm from KDE3 to start KDE4 session. Create kde4.desktop file with the following content:
[Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Type=XSession Exec=/usr/local/kde4/bin/startkde4 TryExec=/usr/local/kde4/bin/startkde4 Name=KDE4 Comment=The K Desktop Environment.
- and put it under /usr/local/share/apps/kdm/sessions/ . Now you can choose KDE4 from the session list of kdm.
- Using xinit.
- Add following lines to ~/.xinitrc file:
PATH=/usr/local/kde4/bin:$PATH export PATH startkde4
- Run xinit as usual.