Alexander Dymo's Homebrew

Homebrew tap to build KDE 4 apps on Mac OS. Based on https://github.com/somekool/homebrew but actually works. Note, this is not a full KDE distribution. It contains only KDE apps that this project's maintainers actually use.

Available stable apps:

• KDevelop
• Kate
• Konversation
• Massif Visualizer

If you'd like to try KDE 5 versions, try Harald Fernengel's tap: https://github.com/haraldF/homebrew-kf5

Installation

Prepare your environment:

• Append these codes to your ~/.bash_profile or ~/.profile:

export KDEDIRS=$KDEDIRS:$HOME/Library/Preferences/KDE:/usr/local/kde4
export PATH=/usr/local/kde4/bin:$PATH
export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/kde4/lib:$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH
launchctl setenv DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH /usr/local/kde4/lib:$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH
export XDG_DATA_HOME=$HOME/Library/Preferences/KDE/share
export XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/local/kde4/share:/usr/local/share:/usr/share

• If you were using this tap before Feb 17, 2014, kde stuff were installed to /usr/local and you cannot uninstall them. Which means your /usr/local is already messed up. Please backup everything important, sudo rm -rf /usr/local/*, reinstall homebrew and all your formulas, and anything else you put under /usr/local.
• Now kde stuff are installed to /usr/local/kde4, you still cannot uninstall single kde formula, but you can safely nuke that directory and reinstall kde formulas you want to keep.
• We're working on a solution to make kde formulas install to their own kegs.

Tap my KDE repository:

brew tap adymo/kde

Compile Qt with D-Bus and Qt3 support. KDE will not work without that.

brew uninstall qt
brew install qt --with-d-bus --with-qt3support

Install KDE applications

brew install kate
brew install kdevelop
brew install kdevelop-ruby
brew install ...

Launch D-Bus

mkdir -p ~/Library/LaunchAgents
# substitute Cellar/d-bus/1.8.0 below with your actual dbus installation dir
ln -s /usr/local/Cellar/d-bus/1.8.0/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents
launchctl load -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist

Update system configuration:

• relogin or restart your system

kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental
update-mime-database /usr/local/share/mime
update-mime-database /usr/local/kde4/share/mime

Create application links (so that Finder and Launchpad see KDE apps):

brew linkapps

Run KDE apps from Launchpad or from command line:

open /Applications/kdevelop.app

Troubleshooting

• if kbuildsycoca4 never finishes, then stop dbus, remove its lock file (run env | grep DBUS to find out where it is) and start dbus again
• if dbus fails to start, check whether you have /usr/local/etc/dbus-1/session.d directory
• sometimes after App Store run upgrades, DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH will be reset, then some plugins will fail to load, run launchctl setenv DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH /usr/local/kde4/lib:$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH in terminal to fix
• if kbuildsycoca or any other KDE app hangs during start, upgrade d-bus or recompile dbus from sources (installations from bottles was broken at some point, it was missing important configuration files): brew uninstall dbus && brew install dbus --build-from-source