KDE on scratchbox for maemo 5

This describes how to compile KDE applications on Scratchbox so they can be run on a Nokia N900. A N900 runs Maemo 5. You need to install Qt, kdesupport, kdelibs and kdepimlibs before you can run KDE applications.

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[edit] How it goes

[edit] On the N900

ssh root@localhost
apt-get install subversion

[edit] On your desktop

[edit] Set up scratchbox

Main article: Documentation/Maemo 5 Final SDK Installation


  • Install Scratchbox and the Maemo 5 SDK.
  • Re-login to Linux so you belong to the group sbox.
  • log in to scratchbox:
$ /scratchbox/login
[sbox-FREMANTLE_X86: ~] > sb-conf select FREMANTLE_ARMEL

[edit] cmake

Main article: Qt4 Hildon#CMake


Install CMake:

[sbox-FREMANTLE_ARMEL: ~] > apt-get install cmake

[edit] subversion

Install Subversion:

[sbox-FREMANTLE_ARMEL: ~] > apt-get install subversion

[edit] Qt

Download Qt everywhere 4.6 and build it. E.g. on 2010-03-27 it worked with:

cd
wget http://get.qt.nokia.com/qt/source/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.6.2.tar.gz
tar xvzf qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.6.2.tar.gz
cd qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.6.2
./configure --prefix=/usr && make && make install

[edit] libical

libical is needed for kdepimlibs:

cd
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/freeassociation/libical/libical-0.44/libical-0.44.tar.gz?use_mirror=switch
tar xvzf libical-0.44.tar.gz
cd libical-0.44
./configure && make && make install

[edit] gpgme

gpgme is needed for kdepimlibs:

[sbox-FREMANTLE_ARMEL: ~] > apt-get install libgpgme11-dev

[edit] boost

libboost is needed for kdepimlibs

apt-get install libboost-graph-dev

[edit] giflib

cd
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/giflib/giflib%204.x/giflib-4.1.6/giflib-4.1.6.tar.bz2?use_mirror=switch
bunzip2 giflib-4.1.6.tar.bz2
tar xvf giflib-4.1.6.tar
cd giflib-4.1.6
./configure && make && make install

[edit] See also