Install SmoothTasks in Kubuntu / general tarball installation help

Solution 1:

Repositories

Many applications are in the official repositories. SmoothTasks is a plasma widget: http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=plasma-widget-smooth-tasks&searchon=names&suite=oneiric&section=all

PPA

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ppas

Searching the plasma-widget-smooth-tasks: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ppas?name_filter=plasma-widget-smooth-tasks

Building from the sources

A start point: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CompilingSoftware or https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CompilingEasyHowTo

Generic plasmoid build

From a plasmoid README file:

cd /where/your/applet/is/decompressed

mkdir build

cd build

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX='kde4-config --prefix' ..

make

sudo make install

Different KDE versions. KDE 4.7 vs KDE 4.8

http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthread.php?56838-SOLVED-When-plasma-widget-smooth-tasks-will-be-available

Build depencies

Q:

I tried installing on KDE 4.7, then on KDE 4.8. Both give me missing dependency reports (if you need to see them I'll post them)

A:

The base package for the building:

• build-essential

If you have this package installed, you only need to install whatever a package specifies as its build-time dependencies to build the package.

From the official Ubuntu package: plasma-widget-smooth-tasks/debian/control; Build-Depends:

• gettext
• kde-workspace-dev
• libx11-dev
• cmake