axept Posted April 27, 2006 Share Posted April 27, 2006 (edited) KDE on OSX86 How to do it: (Only works with 10.4.4/5/6 versions!) You need to install X11 and Xcode tools , i´ve used Jas 10.4.3 DVD to install Xcode but you have other ways . Download DarwinPorts last version (source),so get the tar.bz2 or the tar.gz DarwinPorts 1.2.1 Extract the tar. ;open a Terminal and get inside the folder with " CD / " command , do an: $./configure then $make and to finish $sudo make install go inside the DarwinPorts-1.2.1 and open the text file "README_RELEASE1" where you can find the how to! or copy paste this to the terminal: #export PATH=/opt/local/bin:$PATH enter #port sync enter #port selfupdate enter and to finish #port install kdebase3 it takes 4 hours or more to build KDE! After finishing open X11 and open the folder "/opt/local/bin/" with Finder , double click " kdeinit " and " kdesktop " after. To stop KDE double click " kdeinit_shutdown " note that to get to the applications on KDE you should look for the "run command" app rightclicking your mouse then type "konqueror" on it! It´s hardwork i know but you can manage to install and run some games (kdegames3) finally without QE/CI working! Sound and Video applications do not install, that means there´s no sound on KDE and the Taskbar doesn´t comme(On a "PC" Mac!) up but you have Mac taskbar for using all the time. you may have to type #export PATH=/opt/local/bin:$PATH everytime you start the terminal to install some port! then do an #port list to see what is available. Have fun. Edited June 13, 2006 by axept Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted May 31, 2006 Share Posted May 31, 2006 This is awesome. It took 8 hours to install, but now that it's done, it works great. KDE on OS X! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Nonny Moose Posted May 31, 2006 Share Posted May 31, 2006 Does the installer package at kde.opendarwin.org not work anymore? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snackole Posted May 31, 2006 Share Posted May 31, 2006 Just add "export PATH=$PATH:/opt/local/bin" to .profile in your home directory so you don't have to type that every time you want to install a port. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swad Posted June 1, 2006 Share Posted June 1, 2006 Awesome guide. I'm a big fan of Aqua, but if someone wanted KDE, now they can. Moved to the Genius Bar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moseschrist Posted June 1, 2006 Share Posted June 1, 2006 i rememeber the first time i installed a Linux distro... the first thing i tired to do was to make kde look like aqua... now i make aqua looks like KDE (sort of... more correctly make KDE looks like KDE...) thanks for the great tutorial... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myzar Posted June 1, 2006 Share Posted June 1, 2006 This is nice i'll try it tomorrow osx with an usable gui for powerusers well i hope atleast with a decent filemanager , i'm still trying to find an usable filemanager for osx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dilnalomo Posted June 2, 2006 Share Posted June 2, 2006 This is awesome. It took 8 hours to install, but now that it's done, it works great. KDE on Mac! it really took 8 hours to install????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snackole Posted June 2, 2006 Share Posted June 2, 2006 This process will basically build an operating system from source codes and could very well take more than 8 hours to complete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted June 2, 2006 Share Posted June 2, 2006 It ran from 1 a.m. to about 9 a.m. And yes, I stayed up and watched it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dilnalomo Posted June 2, 2006 Share Posted June 2, 2006 my god, 8 hours...i am going need buckets of kfc... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harshboy Posted June 2, 2006 Share Posted June 2, 2006 Ok, so, does this make like a whole OS that runs in OSX? And if you have Networking/Audio problems in OSX, will you have the problems in KDE? Right now im downloding X11 and Xcode. X11 is done...but Xcode is like 915 MB! Is that right? Did you use 2.3? Also, X11 was only 43 MB, is that right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gooly Posted June 3, 2006 Share Posted June 3, 2006 8hrs is too much, but nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
non sequitur Posted June 4, 2006 Share Posted June 4, 2006 @harshboy, if you are using a real mac OR if you have a friend that has the intel osx install dvds, then all of those tools are on there. sure its awesome to have KDE and Aqua side by side, (ive never used kde or linux all too much) but what is the point other than its fun and something to do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snackole Posted June 4, 2006 Share Posted June 4, 2006 The point is integration. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason_Thames Posted June 5, 2006 Share Posted June 5, 2006 Well... I must say this has turned out to be a pretty neat hack. I have been able to get pretty much everything in KDE to work under X11 and 10.4.5. Pretty damn cool. Check it out... Try it yourselves if you wanna wow all your .nix buds... -Jason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EtherealRemnant Posted June 5, 2006 Share Posted June 5, 2006 Do the KDE file managers work under OS X? I LOVE KDE and LOVE Konqueror, it would be totally awesome to get them running on OS X. I vastly prefer KDE to Aqua... Aqua is just too... ummm... user friendly... I want something that has power AND style - which KDE TOTALLY fits the bill... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRP Posted June 6, 2006 Share Posted June 6, 2006 sure its awesome to have KDE and Aqua side by side, (ive never used kde or linux all too much) but what is the point other than its fun and something to do?KDE apps. They rock. Try it yourselves if you wanna wow all your .nix buds... -Jason Just don't put kicker on the left or the right. Wish I could put it on the left... without all the extra padding that shouldn't be there. Also, if you install kde from fink instead of darwinports ('fink install bundle-kde-ssl'), disable icons in the KDE control center; you won't see your OS X desktop otherwise! (on the plus side, I do think sound works, but I'd have to whip out my MacBook to make sure) Do the KDE file managers work under OS X? I LOVE KDE and LOVE Konqueror, it would be totally awesome to get them running on OS X. I vastly prefer KDE to Aqua... Aqua is just too... ummm... user friendly... I want something that has power AND style - which KDE TOTALLY fits the bill... Well, so does OS X for that matter... it's why I use OS X instead of Linux. Yes, you can use Konqueror. But you can also install baghira if you use fink and have KDE startlingly Aqualike (look at the lovely guides on the site)! A point of contention however: Aqua is the visual style of OS X. Not its user interface. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
U.C. Posted June 11, 2006 Share Posted June 11, 2006 KDE rocks, but how did u get the menu to come. It never came in mine. Also the time it takes to install depends on your net conn speed too. It needs to DL some packages. Actual Compilation takes max 30 Mins. But i think its more like 15 Mins. On my 256kbps, it took around 4 Hrs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
axept Posted June 11, 2006 Author Share Posted June 11, 2006 Hi ppl. Sorry for not sayin' a word all this time but i only found this today. It's nice to know someone tried it. I Am Curious to know if someone with a real Mac could compile mplayer and about the sound ... Thanks About the menu,well, the taskbar doesn't show up ,a least with an PC MAC!So the only way is to call konqueror and get all the apps with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnniecarcinogen Posted June 14, 2006 Share Posted June 14, 2006 I posted here too: http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?showtopic=19715 But if you enter "http://kde.opendarwin.org/" in the finder when you click on "go" in the menu and "connect to server" it only takes 1.5 hours depending on your connection to install KDE integrated apps for OS X. notice in this pic how the Xserver is not running and the Konqueror icon is in the dock: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaS Posted June 14, 2006 Share Posted June 14, 2006 I posted here too: http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?showtopic=19715 But if you enter "http://kde.opendarwin.org/" in the finder when you click on "go" in the menu and "connect to server" it only takes 1.5 hours depending on your connection to install KDE integrated apps for OS X. notice in this pic how the Xserver is not running and the Konqueror icon is in the dock: I am trying this now,btw I have been reading your postings now for a while and I can see you always have something good to post about. Thanks for this tip,I really didn't want to spend 8 hours compiling kde. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guttertrash Posted July 15, 2006 Share Posted July 15, 2006 TO GET THE MENU - dont use kdesktop. use startkde. so do xinit or wahtever you want to do to get your x server up then run startkde and it will load the full environment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elv13 Posted July 16, 2006 Share Posted July 16, 2006 or kicker what about kwin? can it load for X11 apps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockoTDF Posted July 19, 2006 Share Posted July 19, 2006 So...does this mean I can run linux apps natively in OS X? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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