KDE4.2 now in macports

**stmiller** · February 2nd, 2009

For anyone interested, KDE 4.2.0 is now in macports. port install away...

**3rdalbum** · February 2nd, 2009

That's kinda cool! Does it actually run the full desktop environment on Apple's X server, or is it only the applications that are available?

**mips** · February 2nd, 2009

Originally Posted by 3rdalbum

That's kinda cool! Does it actually run the full desktop environment on Apple's X server, or is it only the applications that are available?

No idea but kdebase, kdebase-runtime, kdegraphics, kdemultimedia, kdeedu etc all seem to be there.
http://www.macports.org/ports.php?by...=2&pagesize=50

Maybe someone can test it and give feedback... Dunno about things like Phonon, Plasma etc

**handy** · February 3rd, 2009

I fiddled around with macports a year ago & wasn't too impressed with the experience.

Nothing worked properly for me. Though it may well have been my own fault.

**stmiller** · February 7th, 2009

With macports you can install wine, and lots of good stuff. KDE4.x is native OS X. So all KDE4 apps run and behave like a normal OS X application.

Doing 'sudo port install kdepim-kde4' installs Kontact, which places a little kontact.app application in your Application folder.

Here is a screenshot:

http://xs136.xs.to/xs136/09062/kontactedit353.png

**MikeTheC** · February 7th, 2009

Why not just get Parallels or VMware and run a full copy of whatever distro of Linux you want in there, along with a full and uncompromised D.E.-of-your-choice experience?

**DeadSuperHero** · February 7th, 2009

Originally Posted by MikeTheC

Why not just get Parallels or VMware and run a full copy of whatever distro of Linux you want in there, along with a full and uncompromised D.E.-of-your-choice experience?

...

Because it takes more time and effort to do something like that?