[ale] kde question

Sun Feb 14 10:10:24 EST 2016

Rpm -ql kdepim | grep bin 
That will show all the executables.
It should also appear in the gui start menu after a logout.

On February 14, 2016 9:21:14 AM EST, Sean Kilpatrick <kilpatms at gmail.com> wrote:
>As I said, this gets weird.
>as root, running yum install gets me this:
>
>Package 7:kdepim-4.10.5-4.el7.x86_64 already installed and latest
>version
>Nothing to do
>
>If I run find <find / -type f -name kdepim -print> *
>I get this message, which makes no sense:
>
>
>find: ‘/run/user/1000/gvfs’: Permission denied
>
>Which I am guessing means it couldn't look in that (empty) directory
>for
>some unknowable reason so it quit.
>
>so I ran yum remove, which worked, and then ran yum install, which
>worked.  Still can't find the damn executable.
>
>then read through the man file and tried this:
>find / -type f -name kdepim -path ./run/user/1000 -prune -o -print *
>
> but I obviously do NOT have the syntax right because the output listed
>every file on the box -- I think because I couldn't scroll back up to
>the beginning of the list -- buffer isn't that big!
>
>* NOTE:  the syntax for the FIND command is amazingly complex.  And the
>INFO file appears to be only a copy of the MAN file. No help there.
>And,
>of course, in keeping with Linux docs, there are no examples of how to
>do things.
>
>
>Sean
>
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>
>
>On Sat, 2016-02-13 at 23:03 -0500, Jim Kinney wrote:
>> 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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