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Welcome to Simone Giustetti's wiki pages.

Languages: '''English''' - [http://www.giustetti.net/wiki/index.php?title=TDE_tdeadmin Italiano]

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== TDEADMIN ==
[[En/trinity_desktop_environment#Base_Packages]]

A modern software like the '''Trinity Desktop Environment''' provides many functionalities to both average users and system administrators. The environment can be configured to meet user needs through the '''Control Center''' application or '''kcontrol''' which is part of the previously described [http://www.giustetti.net/wiki/index.php?title=En/TDE_tdebase '''tdebase'''] package. The '''tdeadmin''' package includes some utilities for system administrators aimed at easing some repetitive tasks such as user administration and package management. Some of the included programs are:
* '''kcron''': A graphical interface for the '''cron''' scheduler.
* '''kdat''': A tape management program. Useful for backup administrators.
* '''kpackage''': A package manager supporting the '''tgz / txz''' package format and many other common ones.
* '''ksysv''': A runlevel configuration utility. Sadly ksysv only works with '''sysv''' init scripts and not the standard Slackware init system.
* '''kuser''': User administration tool.
* '''secpolicy''': A [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluggable_authentication_module '''P'''luggable '''A'''uthentication '''M'''odules] (PAM) configuration utility,
For more information about the listed programs, please refer to the respective manuals.

== Tdeadmin and Slackware ==

The tdeadmin package replaces kdeadmin for KDE 3.5. The build system relies on '''autotools''' and has not been ported to [http://www.cmake.org cmake] yet. The kdeadmin build script can be used for tdeadmin, but some updates and tweaks are due. To guarantee a smooth build the following guidelines were followed:
* Directory '''/opt/trinity''' was set as package root directory.
* Some missing makefiles were created running the '''make''' command from inside the main directory of the code extracted from the source archive.
* The source code '''was patched''' in order to '''solve a version mismatch issue with libtool''': the source code was configured for release 2.2.6, but 2.4.2 is installed along Slackware 14.0.
No specific options were used for the '''configure''' command as the package seems not to need any. Some script lines of code and related comments follow.

Some configuration scripts required by the build procedure are missing from the source tarball. We create the makefiles using the make command:
# Prepare the package for building (Create the configure script).
echo "(II) admin makefile run here" >> ${OUTPUT}/${PRGNAM}_configure.log
make -f admin/Makefile.common \
2>&1 | tee -a ${OUTPUT}/${PRGNAM}_configure.log
A patch is needed to solve a '''libtool''' package version mismatch conflict:
# Patch the admin/ltmain.sh script in order to solve a version mismatch.
patch -p0 -i ${SRCDIR}/ltmain_version_update.patch
'''The script specifically sets Qt libraries paths''' in order for other scripts to find them at build time:
# Add temporary paths to handle new libraries during build
export QTDIR=/opt/trinity
export PATH=/opt/trinity/bin:/usr/bin:$PATH
export LIBDIR=/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX}
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX}:/opt/trinity/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX}
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=:/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX}/pkgconfig:/opt/trinity/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX}/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH
Finally the script runs the '''./configure''' command to configure source code in accordance to the destination environment:
# Configure the package
LDFLAGS="${SLKLDFLAGS}" \
CFLAGS="${SLKCFLAGS}" \
CXXFLAGS="${SLKCFLAGS}" \
../${PRGNAM}-${VERSION}/configure \
--prefix=${PREFIX} \
--sysconfdir="/etc/trinity" \
--libdir=${LIBDIR} \
--mandir=${PREFIX}/man \
--with-qt-dir=${QTDIR} \
--with-qt-includes=${PREFIX}/include \
--with-qt-libraries=${PREFIX}/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX} \
--disable-rpath \
--enable-closure \
2>&1 | tee -a ${OUTPUT}/${PRGNAM}_configure.log
Once the configuration successfully concludes, the script runs the make command then goes on with packaging the software.

A full script can be downloaded from the following [http://www.giustetti.net/resource/slackbuild/tde/35132/tdeadmin.tar.gz link]. The output package can be installed using command '''installpkg''' as usual in Slackware Linux.

For any feedback, questions, errors and such, please e-mail me at ''studiosg [at] giustetti [dot] net''

External Links
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* [http://www.trinitydesktop.org/wiki/bin/view/Developers/HowToBuild TDE build guide]

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Languages: '''English''' - [http://www.giustetti.net/wiki/index.php?title=TDE_tdeadmin Italiano]

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+{{header_en|title=Building an Admin package for TDE| keyword={{Template:keyword_en_tde}}| description=Building, installing and configuring a working Admin package for TDE and Slackware Linux | link_page=TDE_tdeadmin}}
 == TDEADMIN ==
-[[En/trinity_desktop_environment#Base_Packages]]
+[[En/trinity_desktop_environment#Base_Packages | TDE - Base Packages]]
 A modern software like the '''Trinity Desktop Environment''' provides many functionalities to both average users and system administrators. The environment can be configured to meet user needs through the '''Control Center''' application or '''kcontrol''' which is part of the previously described [http://www.giustetti.net/wiki/index.php?title=En/TDE_tdebase '''tdebase'''] package. The '''tdeadmin''' package includes some utilities for system administrators aimed at easing some repetitive tasks such as user administration and package management. Some of the included programs are:
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 The tdeadmin package replaces kdeadmin for KDE 3.5. The build system relies on '''autotools''' and has not been ported to [http://www.cmake.org cmake] yet. The kdeadmin build script can be used for tdeadmin, but some updates and tweaks are due. To guarantee a smooth build the following guidelines were followed:
-* Directory '''/opt/trinity''' was set as package root directory.
+* Directory ''/opt/trinity'' was set as package root directory.
 * Some missing makefiles were created running the '''make''' command from inside the main directory of the code extracted from the source archive.
 * The source code '''was patched''' in order to '''solve a version mismatch issue with libtool''': the source code was configured for release 2.2.6, but 2.4.2 is installed along Slackware 14.0.
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 Some configuration scripts required by the build procedure are missing from the source tarball. We create the makefiles using the make command:
     # Prepare the package for building (Create the configure script).
     echo "(II) admin makefile run here" >> ${OUTPUT}/${PRGNAM}_configure.log
     make -f admin/Makefile.common \
 >&1 | tee -a ${OUTPUT}/${PRGNAM}_configure.log
 A patch is needed to solve a '''libtool''' package version mismatch conflict:
     # Patch the admin/ltmain.sh script in order to solve a version mismatch.
     patch -p0 -i ${SRCDIR}/ltmain_version_update.patch
 '''The script specifically sets Qt libraries paths''' in order for other scripts to find them at build time:
     # Add temporary paths to handle new libraries during build
     export QTDIR=/opt/trinity
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     export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX}:/opt/trinity/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX}
     export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=:/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX}/pkgconfig:/opt/trinity/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX}/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH
 Finally the script runs the '''./configure''' command to configure source code in accordance to the destination environment:
     # Configure the package
     LDFLAGS="${SLKLDFLAGS}" \
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        --enable-closure \
 >&1 | tee -a ${OUTPUT}/${PRGNAM}_configure.log
 Once the configuration successfully concludes, the script runs the make command then goes on with packaging the software.
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 External Links
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 * [http://www.trinitydesktop.org/wiki/bin/view/Developers/HowToBuild TDE build guide]
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-Languages: '''English''' - [http://www.giustetti.net/wiki/index.php?title=TDE_tdeadmin Italiano]
+{{footer_en | link_page=TDE_tdeadmin}}