Install (almost) any plasmoid

[Fintan]

It took me a while, a lot of questions on kde-look and the answers from the good people there.
Especially Mherbert .

Some things I know a lot about, most things I know nothing about

Like compiling with kubuntu.

anyway here goes:

The following packages are needed:

libkonq5-dev, libkonq5, cmake, libplasma-dev, kdelibs5-dev, kdebase-dev-kde4 as well as gcc-3.3base, and g++

unpack the downloaded plasmoid and run in a terminal from the unpacked folder:

# mkdir build

# cd build

# cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config --prefix` ..

# make

# sudo make install

restart kde4

Hope that helps those who want to play with plasmoids

Edit:
The ones I have tried (so far) that work:
plasmoid weather
plasmoid quick access
plasmoid previewer

Doesn't work:
multirow taskbar
quicklauncher (both source and ubuntu versions)
plasma-am3rok

[MoonRise]

Re: Install (almost) any plasmoid

Doesn't work:
multirow taskbar
quicklauncher (both source and ubuntu versions)
plasma-am3rok

Thanks for the info...Was looking at trying the quicklauncher, but you answered that question for me

[Guest]

Re: Install (almost) any plasmoid

Nothing works!
Please help.
I've done all the processes correctly. The plasmoids install correctly, but I do not see them in the add widgets list.
What do I have to do?

[Fintan]

Re: Install (almost) any plasmoid

restart kde4 ??

[elgordo123]

Re: Install (almost) any plasmoid

Hi Fintan. thanks for your guide, however I am getting the same thing. It builds and installs without any problems, but doesn't show up in my add widgets list either. I've tried restarting kde and also rebooting computer.
When I run make install (as root) I get:
[100%] Built target plasma_applet_quickaccess
Install the project...
-- Install configuration: "RelWithDebInfo"
-- Up-to-date: /home/mark/Linux/Themes/Plasmoids/quickaccess-0.7.1/kde4config --prefix/lib/kde4/plasma_applet_quickaccess.so
-- Up-to-date: /home/mark/Linux/Themes/Plasmoids/quickaccess-0.7.1/kde4config --prefix/share/kde4/services/plasma-applet-quickaccess.desktop

No errors, but nothing shows in widget list. Any guesses?

[elgordo123]

Re: Install (almost) any plasmoid -Got it to work...

I got it to work. One thing about linux is that ' " and ` all have different meanings... Looking at the install instr on the weather applet, and did it exactly like it showed. Here is the one for weather, adjust for others.
Big problem I had was on the cmake line use the ` symbol (under the tilde). Not single quote. Also make sure to have space and then .. (better to just copy that line and paste into your terminal).

tar -xvzf plasma-weather-0.2.tar.gz
cd weather
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config --prefix` ..
make
make install

restart x (ctrl-alt-backspace) or logout, menu, restart x server. And there it is!

Thanks again!

[kjjjjshab]

Re: Install (almost) any plasmoid

# mkdir build

...

# means logged in as root, correct? Is that what you are suggesting?

[elgordo123]

Re: Install (almost) any plasmoid

because you most likely downloaded it your home directory, and expanded it there you can can cd into that directory and do mkdir build just as described as user. You only have to do the make install part as root (sudo).

[Fintan]

Re: Install (almost) any plasmoid

because you most likely downloaded it your home directory, and expanded it there you can can cd into that directory and do mkdir build just as described as user. You only have to do the make install part as root (sudo).

Thats right.

[kjjjjshab]

Re: Install (almost) any plasmoid

# = root
$ = user

Edit: That is all I meant. Since the OP had put together a wonderful set of instructions, I thought it should be made even better by following the standard use of # & $, since this could be confusing to new users... and

code

should probably only contain just that... so people can copy and paste away... that is the point of the tag, right?

Thanks for taking the time to put together the steps... I appreciate it.

[MoonRise]

Re: Install (almost) any plasmoid

I get this error at the step where you run "make". What does it mean. What am I doing wrong.

make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.

[Rog131]

Re: Install (almost) any plasmoid

I get this error at the step where you run "make". What does it mean. What am I doing wrong.

make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.

Can you locate "Makefile" ?

Cmake should say something like this:

...
-- Found Plasma: /usr/lib/libplasma.so
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: ....

Build files have been written to => Makefile location

[Rog131]

Re: Install (almost) any plasmoid

Example, from the plasmoid source to the .deb


About plasmoids

There are plasmoids and there are plasmoids > Plasma Updates

by Aaron Seigo on Thursday 03/Apr/2008, @08:53

> and plasma API stop receiving changes so that KDE 4.1 plasmoids work on KDE 4.2
> and vice-versa?

as i said long before 4.0 came out: libplasma will not be binary compatible between 4.0 and 4.1, the goal is to move to binary compatibility once 4.1 is out.

Installing: build-essential, cmake, cmake-gui, kdeplasma-addons-dev, libplasma-dev, dh-make, fakeroot

A link to the links > FAQ: Installing from source


Downloading System Status plasmoid
and unpacking 74891-system_status-0.5.tar.gz to the /media/sdc6/tmp_plasmoids/SystemStatus/systemstatus-0.5

so

ls /media/sdc6/tmp_plasmoids/SystemStatus/systemstatus-0.5

tells:

Dirs:
applet
data_engine

Files:
AUTHORS
CMakeLists.txt
COPYING
INSTALL

About cmake

NAME
cmake - Cross-Platform Makefile Generator.

USAGE
cmake [options] <path-to-source>
cmake [options] <path-to-existing-build>

DESCRIPTION
The "cmake" executable is the CMake command-line interface. It may be
used to configure projects in scripts. Project configuration settings
may be specified on the command line with the -D option. The -i option
will cause cmake to interactively prompt for such settings.

CMake is a cross-platform build system generator. Projects specify
their build process with platform-independent CMake listfiles included
in each directory of a source tree with the name CMakeLists.txt. Users
build a project by using CMake to generate a build system for a native
tool on their platform.

There is also cmake-gui (intrepid)

GUI for cmake cross-platform make system

CMake is used to control the software compilation process using simple platform and compiler independent configuration files. CMake generates native makefiles and workspaces that can be used in the compiler environment of your choice. CMake is quite sophisticated: it is possible to support complex environments requiring system configuration, pre-processor generation, code generation, and template instantiation.

This package provides a simple GUI to guide you through running cmake.

Konsole is in the /media/sdc6/tmp_plasmoids/SystemStatus/systemstatus-0.5. Running cmake:

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config --prefix` /media/sdc6/tmp_plasmoids/SystemStatus/systemstatus-0.5

Output is in the cmake_log.txt


Now i could run "make" and "sudo make install". But i'm making a deb package.

Source file is in the /media/sdc6/tmp_plasmoids/SystemStatus/source/systemstatus-0.5.tar.gz. Debianizing:

dh_make -e [email]name@domain.dom[/email] -f /media/sdc6/tmp_plasmoids/SystemStatus/source/systemstatus-0.5.tar.gz

Type of package: single binary, multiple binary, library, kernel module or cdbs?
[s/m/l/k/b] s

Maintainer name : rog 131
Email-Address : name@domain.dom
Date : Sat, 16 Aug 2008 23:29:10 +0300
Package Name : systemstatus
Version : 0.5
License : blank
Using dpatch : no
Type of Package : Single
Hit <enter> to confirm:
Done. Please edit the files in the debian/ subdirectory now. You should also
check that the systemstatus Makefiles install into $DESTDIR and not in / .

Now there is a debian subdirectory. Editing control file - adding description info:

Source: systemstatus
Section: kde
Priority: extra
Maintainer: rog 131 <name@domain.dom>
Build-Depends: cmake, libqt4-dev, kdelibs5-dev, libplasma-dev, debhelper (>= 7)
Standards-Version: 3.7.3
Homepage: http://www.kde-look.org/content/show...?content=74891

Package: systemstatus
Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibsepends}, ${miscepends}
Description: simple plasmoid meant to display cpu, ram, and swap usage
System Status is a simple plasmoid meant to display cpu, ram, and swap usage. Currently it only monitors the average cpu usage. System Status only supports KDE 4.1. http://www.kde-look.org/content/show...?content=74891

Compiling/building deb:

dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b -uc

Output is in the systemstatus_log.txt.

Result is systemstatus_0.5-1_i386.deb (43kB)

Installing:

sudo dpkg -i systemstatus_0.5-1_i386.deb

[sudo] password for rog:
Selecting previously deselected package systemstatus.
(Reading database ... 113416 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking systemstatus (from systemstatus_0.5-1_i386.deb) ...
Setting up systemstatus (0.5-1) ...

Checking:

apt-cache show systemstatus

Package: systemstatus
Status: install ok installed
Priority: extra
Section: unknown
Installed-Size: 200
Maintainer: rog131 <name@domain.dom>
Architecture: i386
Version: 0.5-1
Depends: kdebase-runtime (>= 4:4.1.0), kdelibs5 (>= 4:4.1.0), libbz2-1.0, libc6(>= 2.1.3), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libice6 (>= 1:1.0.0), libplasma2, libqt4-dbus(>= 4.4.1), libqt4-network (>= 4.4.1), libqt4-svg (>= 4.4.1), libqt4-xml (>= 4.4.1), libqtcore4 (>= 4.4.1), libqtgui4 (>= 4.4.1), libsm6, libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1), libx11-6, libxau6, libxcursor1 (>> 1.1.2), libxdmcp6, libxext6, libxfixes3 (>=1:4.0.1), libxft2 (>> 2.1.1), libxrender1, libxtst6, zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
Description: simple plasmoid meant to display cpu, ram, and swap usage
System Status is a simple plasmoid meant to display cpu, ram, and swap usage. Currently it only monitors the average cpu usage. System Status only supports KDE 4.1. http://www.kde-look.org/content/show...?content=74891

and it has been installing:

/.
/usr
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/systemstatus
/usr/share/doc/systemstatus/copyright
/usr/share/doc/systemstatus/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/systemstatus/README.Debian
/usr/share/doc/systemstatus/CMakeLists.txt
/usr/share/doc/systemstatus/CMakeCache.txt.gz
/usr/share/kde4
/usr/share/kde4/services
/usr/share/kde4/services/plasma-dataengine-mem_monitor.desktop
/usr/share/kde4/services/plasma-applet-system_monitor.desktop
/usr/share/kde4/services/plasma-dataengine-cpu_monitor.desktop
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/kde4
/usr/lib/kde4/plasma-applet_system_monitor.so
/usr/lib/kde4/plasma_engine_cpumonitor.so
/usr/lib/kde4/plasma_engine_memmonitor.so
/usr/bin
/usr/sbin

Is it working ?: logout - login and:
(Hmm ? Attached files are show only to the members ?)

[MoonRise]

Re: Install (almost) any plasmoid

Thanks Rog131!! Truthfully, you just swamped me there!

So, the following is the complete konsole output of the procedure. I know I did something. I've dealt with programing a long time, just never for Linux and I'm still learning this part of it. I think it has something to do with directing the output...

moonrise@:~$ cd /home/moonrise/FireFox_DwnLds/tglEffc/toggle-compositing-0.2
moonrise@:~/FireFox_DwnLds/tglEffc/toggle-compositing-0.2$ mkdir build
moonrise@:~/FireFox_DwnLds/tglEffc/toggle-compositing-0.2$ cd build/
moonrise@:~/FireFox_DwnLds/tglEffc/toggle-compositing-0.2/build$ cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config --prefix` ../
-- The C compiler identification is GNU
-- The CXX compiler identification is GNU
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/gcc
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/gcc -- works
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ -- works
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake-2.6/Modules/FindKDE4.cmake:72 (MESSAGE):
 ERROR: cmake/modules/FindKDE4Internal.cmake not found in
 /home/moonrise/.kde4/share/apps;/usr/lib/kde4/share/kde4/apps
Call Stack (most recent call first):
 CMakeLists.txt:3 (find_package)


CMake Warning (dev) in CMakeLists.txt:
 No cmake_minimum_required command is present. A line of code such as

  cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.6)

 should be added at the top of the file. The version specified may be lower
 if you wish to support older CMake versions for this project. For more
 information run "cmake --help-policy CMP0000".
This warning is for project developers. Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.

-- Configuring done
moonrise@:~/FireFox_DwnLds/tglEffc/toggle-compositing-0.2/build$ make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
moonrise@:~/FireFox_DwnLds/tglEffc/toggle-compositing-0.2/build$

[dibl]

Re: Install (almost) any plasmoid

Wow.

Yep, I'm intimidated!