I am attempting to get konsole to work on Absolute Linux, a Slackware
derivate.

I managed to install konsole-4.14.3 but the dependency complaints have
begun.

The first is libkpty.so.4. A ggogle search suggested that this could be
found in kdelibs. I unpacked kdelibs-4.14/3.tar.xz

This did in /kdelibs-4.14.3 but still no lib. The directory also contains a configure file and several cmake files implying that further compilation is required. There is a pointer to a KDE help page but that lacks clarity.

Is it worth continuing?



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On 01/17/17 20:22, Pinnerite wrote:

I am attempting to get konsole to work on Absolute Linux, a Slackware derivate.

Should warn that I'm not a Slackware nor Absolute Linux user-

I managed to install konsole-4.14.3 but the dependency complaints have
begun.

The first is libkpty.so.4. A ggogle search suggested that this could be
found in kdelibs. I unpacked kdelibs-4.14/3.tar.xz

This did in /kdelibs-4.14.3 but still no lib.

This indicates you downloaded a source package and not a precompiled
package for Absolute Linux.

At least in Slackware KDE is the default DE, so it should have all the dependency needed included on the installation media.

The directory also contains a
configure file and several cmake files implying that further compilation is required. There is a pointer to a KDE help page but that lacks clarity.

Is it worth continuing?

I would suggest that you look doe the binary packages instead, for
slackware it seems to be quite good to use the following site:

https://slackware.pkgs.org/14.2/ktown-x86_64/kdelibs-4.14.26-x86_64-1alien.txz.html



If you dare, there are some meta-distributions which can give you quite
high control of your system and handles KDE installations quite well as
Gentoo and Funtoo, but of course you will compile everything without the
need for you to actually know how.

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J.O. Aho wrote:

On 01/17/17 20:22, Pinnerite wrote:

I am attempting to get konsole to work on Absolute Linux, a Slackware
derivate.

Should warn that I'm not a Slackware nor Absolute Linux user-

I managed to install konsole-4.14.3 but the dependency complaints have
begun.

The first is libkpty.so.4. A ggogle search suggested that this could be
found in kdelibs. I unpacked kdelibs-4.14/3.tar.xz

This did in /kdelibs-4.14.3 but still no lib.

This indicates you downloaded a source package and not a precompiled
package for Absolute Linux.

At least in Slackware KDE is the default DE, so it should have all the dependency needed included on the installation media.

The directory also contains a
configure file and several cmake files implying that further compilation
is
required. There is a pointer to a KDE help page but that lacks clarity.

Is it worth continuing?

I would suggest that you look doe the binary packages instead, for
slackware it seems to be quite good to use the following site:

https://slackware.pkgs.org/14.2/ktown-x86_64/kdelibs-4.14.26-x86_64-1alien.txz.html

If you dare, there are some meta-distributions which can give you quite
high control of your system and handles KDE installations quite well as Gentoo and Funtoo, but of course you will compile everything without the
need for you to actually know how.

I did as suggested and decompressed the resultant file but it appears not
to contain libkpty.so.4 which was the first of my dependency stops


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On 01/17/17 23:20, Pinnerite wrote:

J.O. Aho wrote:

I would suggest that you look doe the binary packages instead, for
slackware it seems to be quite good to use the following site:

https://slackware.pkgs.org/14.2/ktown-x86_64/kdelibs-4.14.26-x86_64-1alien.txz.html

I did as suggested and decompressed the resultant file but it appears not
to contain libkpty.so.4 which was the first of my dependency stops

kdelibs-4.14.26-x86_64-1alien.txz:

libkpty.so.4.14.26 38.6KiB root root 4 Dec 2016 14:27:39


From the install/doinst.sh:

( cd usr/lib64 ; ln -sf libkpty.so.4.14.26 libkpty.so.4 )


to install ( http://docs.slackware.com/howtos:slackware_admin:how_to_use_slackware_installing_software
):

sudo upgradepkg --install-new kdelibs-4.14.26-x86_64-1alien.txz


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J.O. Aho wrote:

On 01/17/17 23:20, Pinnerite wrote:

J.O. Aho wrote:

I would suggest that you look doe the binary packages instead, for
slackware it seems to be quite good to use the following site:

https://slackware.pkgs.org/14.2/ktown-x86_64/kdelibs-4.14.26-x86_64-1alien.txz.html

I did as suggested and decompressed the resultant file but it appears not
to contain libkpty.so.4 which was the first of my dependency stops

kdelibs-4.14.26-x86_64-1alien.txz:

libkpty.so.4.14.26 38.6KiB root root 4 Dec 2016 14:27:39

From the install/doinst.sh:

( cd usr/lib64 ; ln -sf libkpty.so.4.14.26 libkpty.so.4 )

to install (

http://docs.slackware.com/howtos:slackware_admin:how_to_use_slackware_installing_software

):

sudo upgradepkg --install-new kdelibs-4.14.26-x86_64-1alien.txz

Now I'm told the shared object libkonq.so.5 cannot be opened.
I can find rpm's holding this but no slackware sources. Can you suggest
a compatible source?

Thanks in advance,

Alan




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On 01/19/17 19:36, Pinnerite wrote:

J.O. Aho wrote:

On 01/17/17 23:20, Pinnerite wrote:

J.O. Aho wrote:

I would suggest that you look doe the binary packages instead, for
slackware it seems to be quite good to use the following site:

https://slackware.pkgs.org/14.2/ktown-x86_64/kdelibs-4.14.26-x86_64-1alien.txz.html

I did as suggested and decompressed the resultant file but it appears not >>> to contain libkpty.so.4 which was the first of my dependency stops

kdelibs-4.14.26-x86_64-1alien.txz:

libkpty.so.4.14.26 38.6KiB root root 4 Dec 2016 14:27:39


From the install/doinst.sh:

( cd usr/lib64 ; ln -sf libkpty.so.4.14.26 libkpty.so.4 )


to install (

http://docs.slackware.com/howtos:slackware_admin:how_to_use_slackware_installing_software

):

sudo upgradepkg --install-new kdelibs-4.14.26-x86_64-1alien.txz

Now I'm told the shared object libkonq.so.5 cannot be opened.
I can find rpm's holding this but no slackware sources. Can you suggest
a compatible source?

Just a bit search and it turns out that the libkonq.so.5 is part of the kde-baseapps package. Download and install it.


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J.O. Aho wrote:

On 01/19/17 19:36, Pinnerite wrote:

J.O. Aho wrote:

On 01/17/17 23:20, Pinnerite wrote:

J.O. Aho wrote:

I would suggest that you look doe the binary packages instead, for
slackware it seems to be quite good to use the following site:

https://slackware.pkgs.org/14.2/ktown-x86_64/kdelibs-4.14.26-x86_64-1alien.txz.html

I did as suggested and decompressed the resultant file but it appears
not to contain libkpty.so.4 which was the first of my dependency stops >>>>

kdelibs-4.14.26-x86_64-1alien.txz:

libkpty.so.4.14.26 38.6KiB root root 4 Dec 2016 14:27:39


From the install/doinst.sh:

( cd usr/lib64 ; ln -sf libkpty.so.4.14.26 libkpty.so.4 )


to install (

http://docs.slackware.com/howtos:slackware_admin:how_to_use_slackware_installing_software

):

sudo upgradepkg --install-new kdelibs-4.14.26-x86_64-1alien.txz

Now I'm told the shared object libkonq.so.5 cannot be opened.
I can find rpm's holding this but no slackware sources. Can you suggest
a compatible source?

Just a bit search and it turns out that the libkonq.so.5 is part of the kde-baseapps package. Download and install it.

Well I installed kde-baseapps-4.14.3.tar.xz but it did not discharge libkonq.so.5. Never mind.







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On 01/20/17 18:01, Pinnerite wrote:

J.O. Aho wrote:

On 01/19/17 19:36, Pinnerite wrote:

J.O. Aho wrote:

On 01/17/17 23:20, Pinnerite wrote:

J.O. Aho wrote:

I would suggest that you look doe the binary packages instead, for >>>>>> slackware it seems to be quite good to use the following site:

https://slackware.pkgs.org/14.2/ktown-x86_64/kdelibs-4.14.26-x86_64-1alien.txz.html

I did as suggested and decompressed the resultant file but it appears >>>>> not to contain libkpty.so.4 which was the first of my dependency stops >>>>>

kdelibs-4.14.26-x86_64-1alien.txz:

libkpty.so.4.14.26 38.6KiB root root 4 Dec 2016 14:27:39


From the install/doinst.sh:

( cd usr/lib64 ; ln -sf libkpty.so.4.14.26 libkpty.so.4 )


to install (

http://docs.slackware.com/howtos:slackware_admin:how_to_use_slackware_installing_software

):

sudo upgradepkg --install-new kdelibs-4.14.26-x86_64-1alien.txz

Now I'm told the shared object libkonq.so.5 cannot be opened.
I can find rpm's holding this but no slackware sources. Can you suggest
a compatible source?

Just a bit search and it turns out that the libkonq.so.5 is part of the
kde-baseapps package. Download and install it.

Well I installed kde-baseapps-4.14.3.tar.xz but it did not discharge libkonq.so.5. Never mind.

It's not enough to just untar the file, you need to use the upgradepkg
or else you will miss all the symlinks that is needed.

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