KDE 4.6.2 on Solaris 11

KDE 4.6.2 is here and now you can have it on your Solaris/OpenIndiana box as well. 
Apart from the upstream fixes we refreshed boost to v. 1.46.1, phonon to 4.5.0 and Qt to 4.7.2.
More patches got upstreamed, especially on the Webkit front, thanks to Ben. Ben is also working hard on Solaris 10 support.

Since we lost the build machine, publishing the binary packages may lag a bit, so if you want to give KDE a try, create a fresh zone and follow the effortless guide to build them. It takes about half a day on a mid-range laptop and it's almost fully automated so it's nothing to be scared of. 

KDE 4.6 beta1 for Solaris

A few hours ago, KDE 4.6.beta1 was released. The kde4-solaris project was among the first to provide binary packages, you can get them from the kde4-solaris IPS repository. The packages were built on Solaris 11 Express, I'd expect them to be installable on OpenIndiana as well. Check [ade]'s blog for more.

Update: It looks like pkgbuild is adding the build number of the build machine into the dependencies. This blocks install on OI, as the dependency cannot be met then. We're working on a solution.

KDE 4.5.2 for OpenSolaris & friends

Thanks to Adriaan who did all the work, the KDE 4.5.2 binary packages for OpenSolaris and other compatible systems are available.
The repo now uses a Linux port of depotd, no VirtualBox involved, so once again the downloads should be smooth. (thanks to Adriaan, again)

The repo:
http://solaris.bionicmutton.org:10101
The announcement:
http://blogs.fsfe.org/adridg/?p=992
The upstream announcement:
http://kde.org/announcements/announce-4.5.2.php

KDE4 on OpenIndiana

OpenIndiana, the spork of OpenSolaris just released the first iso images, so I grabbed one and gave it a go inside VirtualBox.
It booted just fine so I added the KDE4 publisher and tried to pkg install KDEgdm-integration - the basic KDE desktop...

... and it went just fine. There were many dependencies that were downloaded from opensolaris.org during the process. I haven't really investigated whether it's because the OI team hasn't sporked them yet or if there was some other problem.

After a logout I was able to login to a KDE 4.5.1 session and it did not feel much different from one in OpenSolaris.