Installing Plasmoids

[yelsir]

So I'd like to add a better weather widget to my kubuntu desktop.
I'm trying to install some that I found on http://www.kde-look.org

However, I guess I must not have all of the needed packages installed.

For example, I downloaded the plasmoid from (top source file):
http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/yaWP+(Yet+Another+Weather+Plasmoid)?content=94106

Then:
tar -xvf yawp-0.2.3.tar.bz2
cd yawp-0.2.3
./install.sh

-- Found Qt-Version 4.5.0 (using /usr/bin/qmake-qt4)
-- Found X11: /usr/lib/libX11.so
-- Phonon Version: 4.3.0
-- Found KDE 4.2 include dir: /usr/include
-- Found KDE 4.2 library dir: /usr/lib
-- Found the KDE4 kconfig_compiler preprocessor: /usr/bin/kconfig_compiler
-- Found automoc4: /usr/bin/automoc4
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: /home/michael/Documents/yawp-0.2.3
make: *** No rule to make target `clean'. Stop.
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
Compilation failed, sorry :-(


So whats the problem here?
I have packages such as: kdeartwork, kdebase-dev, kde-devel, kdelibs

On similar plasmoids I have got the following:
checking for KDE... configure: error:
in the prefix, you've chosen, are no KDE libraries installed. This will fail.
So, check this please and use another prefix!


Can anyone help me out?

[integr8e]

Re: Installing Plasmoids

Try running this from the unpacked directory:

cmake . -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config --prefix` && make && sudo make install

This should accomplish the same thing as install.sh script; if you get any errors, please post them.

[Rog131]

Re: Installing Plasmoids

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Useful information:

> HOWTO find Kubuntu's manual / reference / guide / documentation / help


About plasmoids (plasma-widgets):

> Topic: Install (almost) any plasmoid


About compiling:

> FAQ: Installing from source


About yaWP:

Depending of your KDE version (plasma version) you will need:

- build-essential
- cmake
- libqt4-dev
- kdelibs5-dev
- libplasma-dev

At the yawp directory:

mkdir -p my_yawp

cd my_yawp && cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr

If you have all the bits and pieces:

...
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: .../my_yawp

Instead of the "sudo make install" /1/

sudo checkinstall

Information:

======================== Installation successful ==========================
...
Building Debian package...OK

Installing Debian package...OK

Erasing temporary files...OK

Writing backup package...OK

Deleting temp dir...OK
...
Done. The new package has been installed and saved to ...my_yawp_20090720-1_i386.deb

You can remove it from your system anytime using:

dpkg -r my_yawp

or you could remove it by your favorite package manager


Other options:

Many of the plasmoids could be found from the PPA repositories > FAQ: Repositories


> Personal Package Archives for Ubuntu >> Show PPAs matching: plasma-widget or Show PPAs matching: plasmoid



/1/ you will need to install the package: checkinstall