Building Apper

[CTown]

I figured since I still have Muon to fall back on, I would try to build Apper (KPackagekit renamed) from git. However, it requires packagekit-qt2 (included with packagekit), so I tried downloading packagekit from git as well and cannot build it at all. How do I build packagekit with the aptcc backend and packagekit-qt2 library.

Packagekit (packagekit-qt2 included) tarball:http://www.packagekit.org/releases/P...-0.6.18.tar.xz
Apper: https://projects.kde.org/projects/pl...per/repository

The only information I can find for building packagekit from source is this article for Fedora: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Build...eKitFromSource

I am also using KDE 4.7 from the Backports PPA.

[GreyGeek]

Re: Building Apper

You're taking the hard route with the tar file, and it appears you aren't skilled enough in programming to do that or you wouldn't have to ask.

Do you have git installed? If not, install it from the repository, along with most of its tools.
If so, do you know how to use it? It's rather easy to use. See Git Tutorial
If so, then use the git CLONE option to download the tree, as described in the tutorial.

You will also need to have the cmake tools installed so that you can use it to read the CMakeLists.txt in order to compile the app.

[CTown]

Re: Building Apper

I know how to use git but thanks for the info. I think git now includes version 7.0, I'm trying to build a slightly older build. I am sure I installed all of the required dependencies, that the configure script gave me.

edit: I took your advice and end up installing version 0.7.1 from git. The script called "autogen.sh" guessed the correct values of my system (like wanting the aptcc backend and wanting Qt support). I needed another package called "daemon" but it built.

Apper itelf was easy to build and excepted packagekit 0.7.1 (I thought it would require an older release). Thanks for the help.