KDE on scratchbox for maemo 5

This describes how to compile KDE applications on Scratchbox so they can be run on a Nokia N900. A N900 runs maemo 5. You need to install Qt, kdesupport, kdelibs and kdepimlibs before you can run KDE applications.

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What does not work

Scratchbox on SUSE 11.2

Installing maemo 5 (freemantle, see codenames) for N900 (maemo 5 does not run on the N810) in a SUSE Linux 11.2 x32 virtual machine resulted in 

Processing was halted because there were too many errors.

Scratchbox on X86_64

Scratchbox cannot be installed on an X86_64 platform. To find out if you have an X86_64 platform, run the following on a console: 

tweedleburg:~ # uname -m
x86_64

In this case your computer is based on X86_64. You should create a virtual machine with 32 bit and continue there.

How it goes

On the Nokia itself 

ssh root@localhost
apt-get install subversion

On your desktop

Install an i386 into a VMWare virtual machine. The following describes how to install scratchbox into a SUSE 11.1 32bit installation. It might work same or similar with any Linux.

Set up scratchbox 

root@i386 # useradd -m scratchboxuser
root@i386 # passwd scratchboxuser
root@i386 # wget http://repository.maemo.org/stable/fremantle/maemo-scratchbox-install_5.0.sh
root@i386 # chmod 777 maemo-scratchbox-install_5.0.sh
root@i386 # ./maemo-scratchbox-install_5.0.sh -s /scratchbox
root@i386 # /scratchbox/sbin/sbox_adduser scratchboxuser
root@i386 # su - scratchboxuser
scratchboxuser@i386 $ wget http://repository.maemo.org/stable/fremantle/maemo-sdk-install_5.0.sh
scratchboxuser@i386 $ sh maemo-sdk-install_5.0.sh

results in 

Happy hacking!

scratchboxuser@i386 $ /scratchbox/login
scratchboxuser@i386 $ sb-conf select FREEMANTEL_ARMEL

cmake 

[sbox-FREMANTLE_ARMEL: ~] > cd
[sbox-FREMANTLE_ARMEL: ~] > wget http://www.cmake.org/files/v2.6/cmake-2.6.2.tar.gz
[sbox-FREMANTLE_ARMEL: ~/cmake-2.6.2] > tar xvzf cmake-2.6.2.tar.gz
[sbox-FREMANTLE_ARMEL: ~/cmake-2.6.2] > cd cmake-2.6.2
[sbox-FREMANTLE_ARMEL: ~/cmake-2.6.2] > ./bootstrap && make -j4 && make install

subversion 

[sbox-FREMANTLE_ARMEL: ~] > apt-get install subversion

Qt

Download Qt everywhere 4.6 and build it using 

./configure --prefix=/usr && make -j2 && make install

libical

libical is needed for kdepimlibs 

cd
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/freeassociation/libical/libical-0.44/libical-0.44.tar.gz?use_mirror=switch
tar xvzf libical-0.44.tar.gz
cd libical-0.44
./configure && make -j2 && make install

gpgme

gpgme is needed for kdepimlibs 

curl ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gpgme/gpgme-1.1.8.tar.bz2 > gpgme-1.1.8.tar.bz2
bunzip2  gpgme-1.1.8.tar.bz2
tar xvf gpgme-1.1.8.tar
cd gpgme-1.1.8
./configure && make -j2 && make install

boost

libboost is needed for kdepimlibs 

apt-get install libboost-graph-dev

giflib 

wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/giflib/giflib%204.x/giflib-4.1.6/giflib-4.1.6.tar.bz2?use_mirror=switch

See also

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