Problems installing kde4sdk

[Guest]

I would like to try my hand at writing code for KDE, but have run into a problem:

I installed KDE4 on top of a fresh install of Kububtu 7.10 following the instructions here http://kubuntu.org/announcements/kde-4.0.1.php. After logging in to my new KDE4 desktop, I installed the packages kde4-devel and kde4libs-dbg; so far all went well.

Next I tried to install the package kde4sdk - the package downloaded OK, but during installation, I got an error message, that I am trying to overwrite two files, kateconsoleplugin.desktop and kateconsoleplugin.so which are also in the package kate-kde4. The sdk package is not installed as a consequence.

Is this a problem with the kde4sdk package (and if so, where do I report it), or am I missing something? Any help will be greatly appreciated.

PS. I can still install Kdevelop, but when I try to compile a project, I am informed, that autoconf is missing. Installing autoconf by itself doesn't help - I guess, that I am missing a script to set the whole thing up (and probably other components as well).

[blobfish]

Re: Problems installing kde4sdk

I can't help with the file problem, but I think kde4 uses cmake and doesn't require autoconf anymore.

http://dot.kde.org/1172083974/

It took only a few weeks to get much of KDE building smoothly using CMake, and autotools was finally dumped!

[Nomad]

Re: Problems installing kde4sdk

If you want to write for KDE, take a look at the KDE Techbase.

Edit: I'm not currenty on Linux, but I think kde4sdk is from an Alpha or Beta release (as the final release packages have a "-" in their name, such as kde4-devel). It apperas on packages.ubuntu.com as version 3.94, while release ones have 4.0.