Am Dienstag 15 Januar 2008 schrieb David Bremner: > >>>>> "Martin" == Martin Steigerwald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Martin> I have it in virtualbox. Works pretty nice. You can't > Martin> fully test compositing easily at least with OpenGL tough, > Martin> it won't obviously not hardware accelerated. > > > Hi Martin;
Hi David, > Could you give as a few details about what you did to get kde4 running > on virtualbox? I installed etch from the net installer without any tasks, cause I couldn't download a lenny/sid installer at that day (torrents broken and what not, somehow I just didn't found a working URL), upgraded to sid, then installed KDE 3.5 and then installed KDE 4 experimental, so that I have everything from KDE 4 and anything from KDE 3 that remains (for example kdepim). I also installed 2.6.23 kernel, but that shouldn't matter. Had some strange problems with xorg, it didn't generate a suitable xorg.conf initially, so I copied over my laptop one. You need to have experimental in the sources.list of course. Since experimental by default has a low priority aptitude won't automatically update KDE 4 packages. I use the following to get to know what KDE packages I need to update: apt-show-versions | egrep "(kde|plasma|extragear)" | grep -v uptodate (you need the debian package apt-show-versions for that too work) I basically have these packages installed: kde4debian:/etc/default/kdm.d# apt-show-versions | egrep "(kde|plasma| extragear)" | sort extragear-plasma-data/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-1 extragear-plasma/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-1 kdeadmin/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-1 kdebase-bin/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-1 kdebase-data/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-1 kdebase/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-1 kdebase-kio-plugins/experimental uptodate 4:3.96.0-1 kdebase-runtime-bin-kde4/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-1 kdebase-runtime-data-common/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-1 kdebase-runtime-data/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-1 kdebase-runtime/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-1 kdebase-workspace-bin/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-2 kdebase-workspace-data/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-2 kdebase-workspace/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-2 kdeedu/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-1 kdegames-card-data/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-1 kdegames/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-1 kdegames-mahjongg-data/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-1 kdegraphics/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-1 kdegraphics-strigi-plugins/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-1 kde-icons-oxygen/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-1 kde-l10n-de/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-1 kdelibs4c2a/sid uptodate 4:3.5.8.dfsg.1-6 kdelibs5-data/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-1 kdelibs5/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-1 kdelibs-bin/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-1 kdelibs-data/sid uptodate 4:3.5.8.dfsg.1-6 kdemultimedia/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-1 kdemultimedia-kio-plugins/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-1 kdenetwork/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-1 kdenetwork-filesharing/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-1 kdepasswd/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-1 kdepim-kfile-plugins/sid uptodate 4:3.5.8-1 kdepim-kio-plugins/sid uptodate 4:3.5.8-1 kdepim-kresources/sid uptodate 4:3.5.8-1 kdepimlibs5/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-1 kdepimlibs-data/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-1 kdepim/sid uptodate 4:3.5.8-1 kdepim-wizards/sid uptodate 4:3.5.8-1 kdessh/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-1 kdeutils/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-1 libkdeedu4/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-1 libkdegames4/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-1 libkdepim1a/sid uptodate 4:3.5.8-1 liblockdev1/sid uptodate 1.0.3-1.2 libplasma1/experimental uptodate 4:4.0.0-2 I hope thats complete. Maybe I am missing something. For kdm from KDE 4 to work correctly I needed to disable the debian theme: kde4debian:/etc/default/kdm.d# cat 10_desktop-base USETHEME="false" THEME="/usr/share/apps/kdm/themes/debian-moreblue" WALLPAPER="/usr/share/apps/kdm/themes/debian-moreblue/background.svg" I also installed the virtualbox guest additions, I used the ISO that you can mount into the VM via the menu. This also replaced the graphics and mouse driver with VirtualBox ones. So for example mouse pointer does not get locked inside the VM window. There are Debian packages for guest additions in the meanwhile tough. Well I could upload the image somewhere, there is nothing private in there, but its already about 2.3 GB... I could try to compact it via vboxmanage and 7zip or something to see how big it would be. To host it on my or one of the companies server I would need to ask first, tough ;-). Ciao, -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]