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Compiling Plasmoids from source in Fedora

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Browsing through kde-look.org, I found a lot of plasmoids that I wanted to install but they were not available in the Fedora repositories. So I had to compile the plasmoids from source.

After a bit of googling on the errors I was getting during compiling those plasmoids, I think the below command should do the job of pulling in all packages you need to compile almost any plasmoid on Fedora KDE.

yum install make automake gcc gcc-c++ kernel-devel kdelibs-devel kdebase-workspace-devel kdebase-devel

Note 1 – This command will also pull in some more packages which are dependencies.

Written by Manas

February 14th, 2010 at 1:17 am

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with 3 comments to “Compiling Plasmoids from source in Fedora”

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  1. Harsh

    14 Feb 10 at 11:52 am

    Fedora is perhaps the only remaining front-runner desktop without an easy user-driven repository service.

    Ubuntu’s PPA and ArchLinux’s AUR success stories should inspire it to build one of its own surely; have no clue why it does not even initiate, perhaps a security restriction.

  2. Manas

    14 Feb 10 at 12:05 pm

    Yeah, I really miss the PPA’s of Ubuntu in Fedora. :(

    For regular packages like Transmission, Rekonq, Amarok, ATI drivers etc. Fedora provides the updates quite fast but there are some small things like plasmoids which I have to go about compiling from source.

  3. Mangosteen Facts

    13 Jul 10 at 1:37 am

    This page wasnt working this morning. i tried accesing it but it timed out 4-5 times now but i can access it now. Why does this happen? Am i the only one having this error?

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