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Building and installing KDE Partition Manager from source
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libparted: Either get it from http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/download.shtml
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and build it yourself or, preferably, install your distribution's packages
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(don't forget the dev-package).
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libuuid: This is part of e2fsprogs, something you will most probably need
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anyway. Get the source and build it from
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http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2406 or, preferably,
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install your distribution's packages (again, don't forget the dev-package).
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libblkid: Also part of e2fsprogs. See libuuid.
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KDE4: KDE 4.0 will not work. The minimum required version is 4.1.0. To build the
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documentation, you need 4.1.4 or 4.2.0.
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KDE Partition Manager is built with cmake, like most of KDE4 today. It is
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recommended to build out of tree: After unpacking the source, create a separate
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build directory and run cmake there:
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$ tar xfj partitionmanager-1.0.0-BETA1.tar.bz2
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$ cd partitionmanager-1.0.0-BETA1
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If all dependencies are met, cmake configures the build directory.
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If you get an error message like "ERROR: Could not find KDE4 kde4-config" but
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have KDE4 and its development packages installed, you might need to add the
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KDE4 bin directory to the path.
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Just run make and make install in the build directory. The default install path
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is /usr/local, so installing will need write privileges there. You can
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configure a different install path by passing
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-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=<your_path> to cmake when configuring. To change the
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install path after configuring and building, run
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in the build directory and modify CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX there.
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KDE Partition Manager should be run as root. Running it as an unprivileged user
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does no harm, but you will not be allowed to apply any operations (i.e., you
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can click through the UI, but cannot modify your disks).
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If you are getting an error like this during the build:
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index.docbook:71: parser error : Entity 'partman' not defined
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there is a problem with a documentation file. This is easily fixed by
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commenting out the offending language in doc/CMakeLists.txt -- the error
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message should indicate which language causes the error. As an alternative, you
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can disable building all documentation by commenting out the
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macro_optional_add_subdirectory(doc) line in the toplevel CMakeLists.txt file.
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