Installing KDE Themes in Kubuntu

[jagercola]

Ok, I'm a first time linux / Kubuntu user and have learned alot just reading online. The one thing which is the bane of my existance is getting themes from kde-look.org to install in Kubuntu. They all come in source code format without a file to import directly into the theme manger in the control center. So reading the various theme's instructions, they say do the classic compile method of ./configure, sudo make, and sudo make install. I've done this for like 10 themes and none of them show up in the Theme Manager under Control Center. The ./configure doesn't give any errors as I've installed a lot of various packages to make sure I can compile stuff. Any help or advice? Thanks! -Will

Edit: I've also tried using "./configure --prefix=`/path/to/this/program/kde-config --prefix`" and changing "/path/to/this" to different directories.

[apokryphos]

You shouldn't be doing "sudo make" -- make should just be done with your permissions; only sudo make install will require root permissions, likely. You should be specifying the prefix of your KDEDIR when compiling a theme. On Ubuntu it's /usr (unless you compiled KDE), so:

./configure --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install

[getaceres]

They don't appear in the theme manager. Look in the style section and they should be there.
Most of the themes you are downloading are styles. A theme is a style+windows decoration+icons+wallpaper+colors and so on. Normally you download and install those things separatelly and then apply some of them one by one.

[jagercola]

Here is what that configure command set to /usr outputs. See anything wrong?

Originally Posted by jagercola jagercola@Penguin:~/Desktop/dotcurve-1.0b3/dotcurve-1.0b3$ ./configure --prefix= /usr checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking for -p flag to install... yes checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... no checking for mawk... mawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for kde-config... /usr/bin/kde-config checking where to install... /usr (as requested) checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3 checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for g++... g++ checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes checking dependency style of g++... gcc3 checking whether g++ supports -Wmissing-format-attribute... yes checking whether gcc supports -Wmissing-format-attribute... yes checking whether g++ supports -Wundef... yes checking whether g++ supports -Wno-long-long... yes checking whether g++ supports -Wnon-virtual-dtor... yes checking whether g++ supports -fno-exceptions... yes checking whether g++ supports -fno-check-new... yes checking whether g++ supports -fno-common... yes checking whether g++ supports -fexceptions... yes checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... g++ -E checking whether g++ supports -O0... yes checking whether g++ supports -Wl,--no-undefined... yes checking whether g++ supports -Wl,--allow-shlib-undefined... yes not using lib directory suffix checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed checking for egrep... grep -E checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/bin/ld checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -B checking whether ln -s works... yes checking how to recognise dependent libraries... pass_all checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking dlfcn.h usability... yes checking dlfcn.h presence... yes checking for dlfcn.h... yes checking for g77... no checking for f77... no checking for xlf... no checking for frt... no checking for pgf77... no checking for fort77... no checking for fl32... no checking for af77... no checking for f90... no checking for xlf90... no checking for pgf90... no checking for epcf90... no checking for f95... no checking for fort... no checking for xlf95... no checking for ifc... no checking for efc... no checking for pgf95... no checking for lf95... no checking for gfortran... no checking whether we are using the GNU Fortran 77 compiler... no checking whether accepts -g... no checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 32768 checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from gcc object... ok checking for objdir... .libs checking for ar... ar checking for ranlib... ranlib checking for strip... strip checking if gcc static flag works... yes checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC works... yes checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no checking dynamic linker characteristics... 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Start make now

[jagercola]

Also, here is the end of the output from sudo make install.

You guys see any glaring errors? Thanks! -Will

Originally Posted by jagercola jagercola@Penguin:~/Desktop/dotcurve-1.0b3/dotcurve-1.0b3$ sudo make install Password: Making install in dotcurve make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jagercola/Desktop/dotcurve-1.0b3/dotcurve-1.0b3/dotcurve' Making install in config make[2]: Entering directory `/home/jagercola/Desktop/dotcurve-1.0b3/dotcurve-1.0b3/dotcurve/config' make[3]: Entering directory `/home/jagercola/Desktop/dotcurve-1.0b3/dotcurve-1.0b3/dotcurve/config' /bin/sh ../../admin/mkinstalldirs /usr/lib/kde3 /bin/sh ../../libtool --silent --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c -p kstyle_dotcurve_config.la /usr/lib/kde3/kstyle_dotcurve_config.la PATH="$PATH:/sbin" ldconfig -n /usr/lib/kde3 make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/jagercola/Desktop/dotcurve-1.0b3/dotcurve-1.0b3/dotcurve/config' make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jagercola/Desktop/dotcurve-1.0b3/dotcurve-1.0b3/dotcurve/config' make[2]: Entering directory `/home/jagercola/Desktop/dotcurve-1.0b3/dotcurve-1.0b3/dotcurve' make[3]: Entering directory `/home/jagercola/Desktop/dotcurve-1.0b3/dotcurve-1.0b3/dotcurve' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'. /bin/sh ../admin/mkinstalldirs /usr/lib/kde3/plugins/styles /bin/sh ../libtool --silent --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c -p dotcurve.la /usr/lib/kde3/plugins/styles/dotcurve.la PATH="$PATH:/sbin" ldconfig -n /usr/lib/kde3/plugins/styles /bin/sh ../admin/mkinstalldirs /usr/share/apps/kstyle/themes /usr/bin/install -c -p -m 644 dotcurve.themerc /usr/share/apps/kstyle/themes/dotcurve.themerc make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/jagercola/Desktop/dotcurve-1.0b3/dotcurve-1.0b3/dotcurve' make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jagercola/Desktop/dotcurve-1.0b3/dotcurve-1.0b3/dotcurve' make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jagercola/Desktop/dotcurve-1.0b3/dotcurve-1.0b3/dotcurve' make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jagercola/Desktop/dotcurve-1.0b3/dotcurve-1.0b3' make[2]: Entering directory `/home/jagercola/Desktop/dotcurve-1.0b3/dotcurve-1.0b3' make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'. make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'. make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jagercola/Desktop/dotcurve-1.0b3/dotcurve-1.0b3' make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jagercola/Desktop/dotcurve-1.0b3/dotcurve-1.0b3' jagercola@Penguin:~/Desktop/dotcurve-1.0b3/dotcurve-1.0b3$

[getaceres]

Originally Posted by jagercola Here is what that configure command set to /usr outputs. See anything wrong?

I said you before. DotCurve is a style, is not a theme. It won't appear in the theme manager but in the styles section.

[jagercola]

Originally Posted by getaceres I said you before. DotCurve is a style, is not a theme. It won't appear in the theme manager but in the styles section.

OMG! You are brillant! Thanks for helping me learn! I can't wait till I get to the level to give back to the kubuntu knowledge pool.

[Ciddan]

I keep getting this annoying error right at the end of the compile... I've tried different likley directories such as /usr and /usr/lib/kde3/ but it still gives me this error.. Any ideas on why? I'm new to Linux so any help would be appriceated!


checking for KDE... configure: error:
in the prefix, you've chosen, are no KDE headers installed. This will fail.
So, check this please and use another prefix!

[getaceres]

Originally Posted by Ciddan I keep getting this annoying error right at the end of the compile... I've tried different likley directories such as /usr and /usr/lib/kde3/ but it still gives me this error.. Any ideas on why? I'm new to Linux so any help would be appriceated! checking for KDE... configure: error: in the prefix, you've chosen, are no KDE headers installed. This will fail. So, check this please and use another prefix!

You need to install kdebase-dev package to be able to compile themes.
To do this: 'sudo apt-get install kdebase-dev' or better using synaptic

[Ciddan]

Originally Posted by getaceres You need to install kdebase-dev package to be able to compile themes. To do this: 'sudo apt-get install kdebase-dev' or better using synaptic

Aaah... Okay. Gonna try that now. Hope it works Thanks