Ruqola Installation

To install Ruqola, you first need to install some modules (listed below).

Requirements-

cmake

sudo apt-get install cmake

cmake-extra-tools

sudo apt-get install extra-cmake-modules

OR

git clone git://annongit.kde.org/extra-cmake-modules

cd extra-cmake-modules

mkdir build

cd build

cmake .. #or run : cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr

make

make install

qt5-websockets

sudo apt-get install libqt5websockets5-dev

qt5-networkauth

sudo apt-get install libqt5networkauth5-dev

GraphicalEffects

sudo apt-get install libqt5qml-graphicaleffects

Build Essentials

sudo apt-get install -y build-essential

KF5KIO

sudo apt-get install libkf5kio-dev
sudo apt-get install libkf5config-dev libkf5crash-dev libkf5service-dev libkf5service5

KF5 Widgets Addons

sudo apt-get install libkf5widgetsaddons-dev

KI18n

sudo apt-get install libkf5i18n-dev

KF5 Notifications

sudo apt-get install libkf5notifications-dev

KF5 DocTools

sudo apt-get install libkf5doctools-dev

KF5 Syntax Highlighting

sudo apt-get install libkf5syntaxhighlighting-dev

Qt5 Keychain

sudo apt-get install qt5keychain-dev

kirigami2

git clone git://anongit.kde.org/kirigami.git
cd kirigami
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. OR cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr ..
make
make install

If you might still get the error “org.kde.kirigami” not found, try copying the folder named “org” in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/qml to /path/to/Qt5.9.1/5.9.1/gcc_64/qml (As Qt searches for qml packages at this default location i.e. QML_IMPORT_PATH=/path/to/Qt5.9.1/5.9.1/gcc_64/qml)

KCoreAddons

sudo apt-get install libkf5coreaddons-bin-dev

You might be prompted to install a few other modules. You can refer to the list of all Qt5 development packages available on Ubuntu.

Some of them are listed here-

Qt5svg

apt-get install libqt5svg5-dev

QtQuickControls

sudo apt-get install qtquickcontrols2-5-dev

KF5Plasma

sudo apt-get install plasma-workspace-dev

KF5WindowSystem

sudo apt-get install qml-module-org-kde-kwindowsystem

KF5Notifications

sudo apt-get install libkf5notifications-dev5

Gettext (GETTEXT_MSGMERGE_EXECUTABLE)

sudo apt-get install gettext

Some others-

sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install qtbase5-dev
sudo apt-get install qtdeclarative5-dev
sudo apt-get install qt5-default

If there is any other package there in the warnings/errors, there must be a the developer package (PACKAGE_NAME-dev) for the same. Just search for the name and install it (apt-get install PACKAGE_NAME-dev).

Building Ruqola-

git clone git://anongit.kde.org/ruqola.git #or https://anongit.kde.org/ruqola.git

cd ruqola

Build from terminal-

mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. #or run : cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr ..
make
make install
ruqola #this command runs the Ruqola application

OR Qtcreator-

Open CMakeLists.txt in QtCreator
Build
Run

 

If everything went well,  then on running CMake you’ll see something like this-

On terminal-

On QtCreator-

 

And on building the application you get this-

On Terminal-

On QtCreator-

And on finally running the application you get this-

 

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Other methods to build Ruqola-

Using craft-

Craft is a tool to build the sources and its third-party requirements. It is the easy way to build software. For more details, refer KDE HOWTOs.

(Thanks to Hannah von Reth(vonreth@kde.org) for suggesting this way 🙂 )

On KDE neon –

You can also use neon developer unstable edition package using the following command-

neondocker.rb -e dev-unstable -a ruqola

For details, refer Neon docker documentation.

(Thanks to Jonathan Riddell (jr@jriddell.org) for this 🙂 )

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If you have any problems building Ruqola, or have any suggestions (I know there must be a lot), any feedbacks or bugs, or if you just want to say “hi”, you can reach out to me   via mail (vasudhamathur96@gmail.com) or telegram (vasudha_mathur) 🙂