[RULE] About standalone KDE apps, was:kmail and kppp

[Vadim Plessky]

On Wednesday 22 January 2003 23:45, M. Fioretti wrote:
|  > Yes, sure.
|  > Try to unpack QT tarball and run
|  > $./configure --help
|  > You would be impressed with number of available options :-)
|
|  Thanks for the explanations, and a (maybe) related question. I seem to
|  remember that somewhere on konqueror and/or koffice site it is said
|  that to build from source you also need arts (a sound driver?). Is it

aRTs provides sound to KDE & KDE apps.
So, if you don't need/wnat sound - you can build KDE without aRTs.

Here are arts dependencies I have onmy machine (KDE 3.1-RC5):

$ rpm -q --whatrequires arts
libarts-devel-1.1.0-0.rc5.1mdk
kdebase-3.1-0.rc5.5mdk

$ rpm -q --whatrequires libarts
arts-1.1.0-0.rc5.1mdk
libarts-devel-1.1.0-0.rc5.1mdk
kdelibs-3.1-0.rc5.2mdk

Some time ago, arts was part of kdelibs (binary packages are generated when 
you rpm --rebuild kdelibs), but than it was separated from kdelibs (as GNOME 
people wanted to use aRTS functionality, too; there is a C API to aRTs, in 
addition to C++ API).
You build it on its own nowdays (from arts SRPM).

BTW: you can play sound using aRTs even from command line:

$ rpm -ql arts
/usr/bin
/usr/bin/artsc-config
/usr/bin/artscat
/usr/bin/artsd
/usr/bin/artsdsp
/usr/bin/artsplay
/usr/bin/artsrec
/usr/bin/artsshell
/usr/bin/artswrapper
/usr/bin/mcopidl
/usr/bin/testdhandle

To play WAV file:
$ artsplay  xxxx.wav


|  true, or I should just sleep more? If arts is needed, why? Is it
|  possible to exclude it, and, if yes, what does one lose?

You will lose sound. 

|
|  	Ciao,
|  		Marco Fioretti

-- 
Best Regards,

Vadim Plessky
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