[ale] kde question

[Jim Kinney]

An easy option is to grab the src.rpms from fedora and do the rpmbuild process. It will take adding several devel packages.

The full method is to use mock locally or maybe get lucky and find built packages on koji.fedoraproject.org.

Ok. Went digging on koji. No kmail. No kontact. 

WTF?!?!?

Ah ha!! The package is called kdepim or kdepim3 (kde version 3). There's an epel build for centos 7.  Just use yum install kdepim with a working epel repo.

On February 13, 2016 8:28:35 PM EST, "Damon L. Chesser" <damon at damtek.com> wrote:
>I have been googling "kmail Centos 7" and finding no joy.  It looks
>like 
>you can't get the full Kontact suite on CentOS 7.  This is not 
>definitive, but Google says no joy.  This information also does not
>help 
>you with your specific issue of EPEL either.
>
>Perhaps what Jim L and Jim K said is correct, perhaps you should try 
>Debian/ubuntu or Fedora.  A quick google does report that kmail and/or 
>Kontact can be had for all three.
>
>I personally have not had a very good desktop experience with Centos 7,
>
>the CentOS devs have not caught up with suppling the things I am 
>interested in using and I don't really want to compile.  Amazingly, you
>
>can install the latest desktop drivers from AMD cards right from the
>AMD 
>websites, but there is no steam, just as an example.
>
>I do find both Fedora > 20 and Ubuntu to give a complete desktop,
>though 
>if you want to run ATI/AMD cards, cut to the chase and use Ubuntu, if 
>you want to run standard open source vid drivers, it's a toss up.
>
>Not  your solution, but perhaps a re-think of your distro may be in 
>order, depending on your needs, of course.
>
>In the past, I have found Kontact to be the single best PIM, sadly, 
>since KDE 4, I am not at all interested in KDE.  Evolution was OK,
>still 
>like it, but my favorite is thunderbird, since I am not going to run 
>Kontact on a  XFCE destkop, though I could. It just becomes to glaring 
>to me with integration to mix gtk and qt.
>
>HTH!
>
>
>
>On 02/11/2016 10:15 PM, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
>> I am trying to run away from Evolution, which is driving me nutz, and
>> move back to kde apps, specifically Kontact.
>> I have all the usual repos, including epel. rpm forge, and rpm fusion
>> (both) but I can not locate the kde set of apps.  Anyone know where I
>> should look?
>>
>> This is a CentOs 7 install.
>>
>> Sean
>>
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