Instructions to install a KDE4 application on Windows
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This question was off-topic on Unix & Linux so I decided to post it here. I am using Windows 8.1 and I don't use Linux so I have never installed something like Cygwin even though I heard about it many times. I want to install a program called "Cirkuit". It is a KDE4 GUI-app that creates circuit diagrams and converts them into Latex code. Here is the official website of the program.
How to install all the required stuff to make it up and running on a Windows PC so that I can get back to writing Latex documents.
linux windows cygwin kde-4
asked Feb 7 at 0:40
billyandrbillyandr
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This question was off-topic on Unix & Linux so I decided to post it here. I am using Windows 8.1 and I don't use Linux so I have never installed something like Cygwin even though I heard about it many times. I want to install a program called "Cirkuit". It is a KDE4 GUI-app that creates circuit diagrams and converts them into Latex code. Here is the official website of the program.
How to install all the required stuff to make it up and running on a Windows PC so that I can get back to writing Latex documents.
linux windows cygwin kde-4
asked Feb 7 at 0:40
billyandrbillyandr
113
1
I don't think Cygwin will be enough. KDE requires a lot of infrastructure. KDE has an ongoing project to port their software to Windows, but I don't know what the status is. This would be a good place to start: community.kde.org/Windows. If your computer has the resources, you could install Linux with KDE in a VM, or just install it dual boot or as a portable USB-based linux system.
– fixer1234
Feb 7 at 1:13
@fixer1234 I really thought like I want to avoid to install a VM because it makes no sense to install a VM just because of one single program I intend to use. But according to your explanation, this is the safest option, right?
– billyandr
Feb 7 at 1:32
I would check out that link first. It might be possible to do it in Windows. If not, and if you don't need to run it concurrent with Windows and it's just the one program, I'd be tempted to stick a bare-bones Linux KDE distro on a flash drive and run it from there.
– fixer1234
Feb 7 at 1:43
There is no rush. I'd be very grateful of your help to install Cirkuit since I am beginner in this.
– billyandr
Feb 7 at 1:54
1
Bummer. As of 5 mos ago, "WSL does not aim to support GUI desktops or applications (e.g. Gnome, KDE, etc.)". More info: docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/faq. It sounds like Microsoft doesn't "aim to support " it, but people have had some level of success making it do it for some DEs.
– fixer1234
Feb 7 at 7:18
|
show 8 more comments
This question was off-topic on Unix & Linux so I decided to post it here. I am using Windows 8.1 and I don't use Linux so I have never installed something like Cygwin even though I heard about it many times. I want to install a program called "Cirkuit". It is a KDE4 GUI-app that creates circuit diagrams and converts them into Latex code. Here is the official website of the program.
How to install all the required stuff to make it up and running on a Windows PC so that I can get back to writing Latex documents.
linux windows cygwin kde-4
asked Feb 7 at 0:40
billyandrbillyandr
113
This question was off-topic on Unix & Linux so I decided to post it here. I am using Windows 8.1 and I don't use Linux so I have never installed something like Cygwin even though I heard about it many times. I want to install a program called "Cirkuit". It is a KDE4 GUI-app that creates circuit diagrams and converts them into Latex code. Here is the official website of the program.
How to install all the required stuff to make it up and running on a Windows PC so that I can get back to writing Latex documents.
linux windows cygwin kde-4
linux windows cygwin kde-4
asked Feb 7 at 0:40
billyandrbillyandr
113
asked Feb 7 at 0:40
billyandrbillyandr
113
asked Feb 7 at 0:40
billyandrbillyandr
113
asked Feb 7 at 0:40
billyandrbillyandr
113
asked Feb 7 at 0:40
billyandrbillyandr
113
113
1
I don't think Cygwin will be enough. KDE requires a lot of infrastructure. KDE has an ongoing project to port their software to Windows, but I don't know what the status is. This would be a good place to start: community.kde.org/Windows. If your computer has the resources, you could install Linux with KDE in a VM, or just install it dual boot or as a portable USB-based linux system.
– fixer1234
Feb 7 at 1:13
@fixer1234 I really thought like I want to avoid to install a VM because it makes no sense to install a VM just because of one single program I intend to use. But according to your explanation, this is the safest option, right?
– billyandr
Feb 7 at 1:32
I would check out that link first. It might be possible to do it in Windows. If not, and if you don't need to run it concurrent with Windows and it's just the one program, I'd be tempted to stick a bare-bones Linux KDE distro on a flash drive and run it from there.
– fixer1234
Feb 7 at 1:43
There is no rush. I'd be very grateful of your help to install Cirkuit since I am beginner in this.
– billyandr
Feb 7 at 1:54
1
Bummer. As of 5 mos ago, "WSL does not aim to support GUI desktops or applications (e.g. Gnome, KDE, etc.)". More info: docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/faq. It sounds like Microsoft doesn't "aim to support " it, but people have had some level of success making it do it for some DEs.
– fixer1234
Feb 7 at 7:18
|
show 8 more comments
1
I don't think Cygwin will be enough. KDE requires a lot of infrastructure. KDE has an ongoing project to port their software to Windows, but I don't know what the status is. This would be a good place to start: community.kde.org/Windows. If your computer has the resources, you could install Linux with KDE in a VM, or just install it dual boot or as a portable USB-based linux system.
– fixer1234
Feb 7 at 1:13
@fixer1234 I really thought like I want to avoid to install a VM because it makes no sense to install a VM just because of one single program I intend to use. But according to your explanation, this is the safest option, right?
– billyandr
Feb 7 at 1:32
I would check out that link first. It might be possible to do it in Windows. If not, and if you don't need to run it concurrent with Windows and it's just the one program, I'd be tempted to stick a bare-bones Linux KDE distro on a flash drive and run it from there.
– fixer1234
Feb 7 at 1:43
There is no rush. I'd be very grateful of your help to install Cirkuit since I am beginner in this.
– billyandr
Feb 7 at 1:54
1
Bummer. As of 5 mos ago, "WSL does not aim to support GUI desktops or applications (e.g. Gnome, KDE, etc.)". More info: docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/faq. It sounds like Microsoft doesn't "aim to support " it, but people have had some level of success making it do it for some DEs.
– fixer1234
Feb 7 at 7:18
1
1
I don't think Cygwin will be enough. KDE requires a lot of infrastructure. KDE has an ongoing project to port their software to Windows, but I don't know what the status is. This would be a good place to start: community.kde.org/Windows. If your computer has the resources, you could install Linux with KDE in a VM, or just install it dual boot or as a portable USB-based linux system.
– fixer1234
Feb 7 at 1:13
I don't think Cygwin will be enough. KDE requires a lot of infrastructure. KDE has an ongoing project to port their software to Windows, but I don't know what the status is. This would be a good place to start: community.kde.org/Windows. If your computer has the resources, you could install Linux with KDE in a VM, or just install it dual boot or as a portable USB-based linux system.
– fixer1234
Feb 7 at 1:13
@fixer1234 I really thought like I want to avoid to install a VM because it makes no sense to install a VM just because of one single program I intend to use. But according to your explanation, this is the safest option, right?
– billyandr
Feb 7 at 1:32
@fixer1234 I really thought like I want to avoid to install a VM because it makes no sense to install a VM just because of one single program I intend to use. But according to your explanation, this is the safest option, right?
– billyandr
Feb 7 at 1:32
I would check out that link first. It might be possible to do it in Windows. If not, and if you don't need to run it concurrent with Windows and it's just the one program, I'd be tempted to stick a bare-bones Linux KDE distro on a flash drive and run it from there.
– fixer1234
Feb 7 at 1:43
I would check out that link first. It might be possible to do it in Windows. If not, and if you don't need to run it concurrent with Windows and it's just the one program, I'd be tempted to stick a bare-bones Linux KDE distro on a flash drive and run it from there.
– fixer1234
Feb 7 at 1:43
There is no rush. I'd be very grateful of your help to install Cirkuit since I am beginner in this.
– billyandr
Feb 7 at 1:54
There is no rush. I'd be very grateful of your help to install Cirkuit since I am beginner in this.
– billyandr
Feb 7 at 1:54
1
1
Bummer. As of 5 mos ago, "WSL does not aim to support GUI desktops or applications (e.g. Gnome, KDE, etc.)". More info: docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/faq. It sounds like Microsoft doesn't "aim to support " it, but people have had some level of success making it do it for some DEs.
– fixer1234
Feb 7 at 7:18
Bummer. As of 5 mos ago, "WSL does not aim to support GUI desktops or applications (e.g. Gnome, KDE, etc.)". More info: docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/faq. It sounds like Microsoft doesn't "aim to support " it, but people have had some level of success making it do it for some DEs.
– fixer1234
Feb 7 at 7:18
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In general it is possible to compile a program from source in cygwin if it runs in Linux.
The method is the same as reported on https://wwwu.uni-klu.ac.at/magostin/cirkuit.html
without the sudo portion that in cygwin does not exist:
tar xzvf cirkuit-x.y.z.tar.gz
cd cirkuit-x.y.z
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config --prefix`
make
make install
of course you will need to install all needed tools
https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-net.html#setup-packages
You will need as minimum the compiler gcc-core plus cmake and make
plus the package that contains kde4-config.
$ cygcheck -p bin/kde4-config
Found 6 matches for bin/kde4-config
...
libkdecore5-4.14.38-3 - libkdecore5: KDE4 application framework
The suggested packages for Debian
texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-recommended texlive-pstricks
texlive-base-bin texlive-extra-utils preview-latex-style m4
ghostscript pdf2svg cmake kdelibs5-dev libqt4-dev libpoppler-qt4-dev
have equal or similar names in Cygwin. As example:
libpoppler-qt4-dev -> libpoppler-qt4-devel
the full list of available packages:
https://cygwin.com/packages/package_list.html
answered Feb 8 at 14:40
matzerimatzeri
1,422257
@Whoa. I can't thank you enough for this. This is my first program installation using cygwin so please can you be more explicit just for this time? I mean I don't know for example how I should download the required packages in the first place.
– billyandr
Feb 8 at 16:40
I didn't understand thecygcheck -p bin/kde4-configcommand. What information does this give? And @matzeri please can you list up the suggested Debian package names in Cygwin. I cannot find some of them and it is confusing for me.
– billyandr
Feb 8 at 16:56
It provides the name of packages that containbin/kde4-config. So a commandkde4-configin abindirectory
– matzeri
Feb 8 at 17:06
Sorry for my ignorance as I am no Linux user. I just needed Cikuit to run on my Windows PC and now I am stuck.
– billyandr
Feb 8 at 17:15
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In general it is possible to compile a program from source in cygwin if it runs in Linux.
The method is the same as reported on https://wwwu.uni-klu.ac.at/magostin/cirkuit.html
without the sudo portion that in cygwin does not exist:
tar xzvf cirkuit-x.y.z.tar.gz
cd cirkuit-x.y.z
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config --prefix`
make
make install
of course you will need to install all needed tools
https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-net.html#setup-packages
You will need as minimum the compiler gcc-core plus cmake and make
plus the package that contains kde4-config.
$ cygcheck -p bin/kde4-config
Found 6 matches for bin/kde4-config
...
libkdecore5-4.14.38-3 - libkdecore5: KDE4 application framework
The suggested packages for Debian
texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-recommended texlive-pstricks
texlive-base-bin texlive-extra-utils preview-latex-style m4
ghostscript pdf2svg cmake kdelibs5-dev libqt4-dev libpoppler-qt4-dev
have equal or similar names in Cygwin. As example:
libpoppler-qt4-dev -> libpoppler-qt4-devel
the full list of available packages:
https://cygwin.com/packages/package_list.html
answered Feb 8 at 14:40
matzerimatzeri
1,422257
@Whoa. I can't thank you enough for this. This is my first program installation using cygwin so please can you be more explicit just for this time? I mean I don't know for example how I should download the required packages in the first place.
– billyandr
Feb 8 at 16:40
I didn't understand thecygcheck -p bin/kde4-configcommand. What information does this give? And @matzeri please can you list up the suggested Debian package names in Cygwin. I cannot find some of them and it is confusing for me.
– billyandr
Feb 8 at 16:56
It provides the name of packages that containbin/kde4-config. So a commandkde4-configin abindirectory
– matzeri
Feb 8 at 17:06
Sorry for my ignorance as I am no Linux user. I just needed Cikuit to run on my Windows PC and now I am stuck.
– billyandr
Feb 8 at 17:15
add a comment |
In general it is possible to compile a program from source in cygwin if it runs in Linux.
The method is the same as reported on https://wwwu.uni-klu.ac.at/magostin/cirkuit.html
without the sudo portion that in cygwin does not exist:
tar xzvf cirkuit-x.y.z.tar.gz
cd cirkuit-x.y.z
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config --prefix`
make
make install
of course you will need to install all needed tools
https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-net.html#setup-packages
You will need as minimum the compiler gcc-core plus cmake and make
plus the package that contains kde4-config.
$ cygcheck -p bin/kde4-config
Found 6 matches for bin/kde4-config
...
libkdecore5-4.14.38-3 - libkdecore5: KDE4 application framework
The suggested packages for Debian
texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-recommended texlive-pstricks
texlive-base-bin texlive-extra-utils preview-latex-style m4
ghostscript pdf2svg cmake kdelibs5-dev libqt4-dev libpoppler-qt4-dev
have equal or similar names in Cygwin. As example:
libpoppler-qt4-dev -> libpoppler-qt4-devel
the full list of available packages:
https://cygwin.com/packages/package_list.html
answered Feb 8 at 14:40
matzerimatzeri
1,422257
@Whoa. I can't thank you enough for this. This is my first program installation using cygwin so please can you be more explicit just for this time? I mean I don't know for example how I should download the required packages in the first place.
– billyandr
Feb 8 at 16:40
I didn't understand thecygcheck -p bin/kde4-configcommand. What information does this give? And @matzeri please can you list up the suggested Debian package names in Cygwin. I cannot find some of them and it is confusing for me.
– billyandr
Feb 8 at 16:56
It provides the name of packages that containbin/kde4-config. So a commandkde4-configin abindirectory
– matzeri
Feb 8 at 17:06
Sorry for my ignorance as I am no Linux user. I just needed Cikuit to run on my Windows PC and now I am stuck.
– billyandr
Feb 8 at 17:15
add a comment |
In general it is possible to compile a program from source in cygwin if it runs in Linux.
The method is the same as reported on https://wwwu.uni-klu.ac.at/magostin/cirkuit.html
without the sudo portion that in cygwin does not exist:
tar xzvf cirkuit-x.y.z.tar.gz
cd cirkuit-x.y.z
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config --prefix`
make
make install
of course you will need to install all needed tools
https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-net.html#setup-packages
You will need as minimum the compiler gcc-core plus cmake and make
plus the package that contains kde4-config.
$ cygcheck -p bin/kde4-config
Found 6 matches for bin/kde4-config
...
libkdecore5-4.14.38-3 - libkdecore5: KDE4 application framework
The suggested packages for Debian
texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-recommended texlive-pstricks
texlive-base-bin texlive-extra-utils preview-latex-style m4
ghostscript pdf2svg cmake kdelibs5-dev libqt4-dev libpoppler-qt4-dev
have equal or similar names in Cygwin. As example:
libpoppler-qt4-dev -> libpoppler-qt4-devel
the full list of available packages:
https://cygwin.com/packages/package_list.html
answered Feb 8 at 14:40
matzerimatzeri
1,422257
In general it is possible to compile a program from source in cygwin if it runs in Linux.
The method is the same as reported on https://wwwu.uni-klu.ac.at/magostin/cirkuit.html
without the sudo portion that in cygwin does not exist:
tar xzvf cirkuit-x.y.z.tar.gz
cd cirkuit-x.y.z
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config --prefix`
make
make install
of course you will need to install all needed tools
https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-net.html#setup-packages
You will need as minimum the compiler gcc-core plus cmake and make
plus the package that contains kde4-config.
$ cygcheck -p bin/kde4-config
Found 6 matches for bin/kde4-config
...
libkdecore5-4.14.38-3 - libkdecore5: KDE4 application framework
The suggested packages for Debian
texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-recommended texlive-pstricks
texlive-base-bin texlive-extra-utils preview-latex-style m4
ghostscript pdf2svg cmake kdelibs5-dev libqt4-dev libpoppler-qt4-dev
have equal or similar names in Cygwin. As example:
libpoppler-qt4-dev -> libpoppler-qt4-devel
the full list of available packages:
https://cygwin.com/packages/package_list.html
answered Feb 8 at 14:40
matzerimatzeri
1,422257
answered Feb 8 at 14:40
matzerimatzeri
1,422257
answered Feb 8 at 14:40
matzerimatzeri
1,422257
answered Feb 8 at 14:40
matzerimatzeri
1,422257
1,422257
@Whoa. I can't thank you enough for this. This is my first program installation using cygwin so please can you be more explicit just for this time? I mean I don't know for example how I should download the required packages in the first place.
– billyandr
Feb 8 at 16:40
I didn't understand thecygcheck -p bin/kde4-configcommand. What information does this give? And @matzeri please can you list up the suggested Debian package names in Cygwin. I cannot find some of them and it is confusing for me.
– billyandr
Feb 8 at 16:56
It provides the name of packages that containbin/kde4-config. So a commandkde4-configin abindirectory
– matzeri
Feb 8 at 17:06
Sorry for my ignorance as I am no Linux user. I just needed Cikuit to run on my Windows PC and now I am stuck.
– billyandr
Feb 8 at 17:15
add a comment |
@Whoa. I can't thank you enough for this. This is my first program installation using cygwin so please can you be more explicit just for this time? I mean I don't know for example how I should download the required packages in the first place.
– billyandr
Feb 8 at 16:40
I didn't understand thecygcheck -p bin/kde4-configcommand. What information does this give? And @matzeri please can you list up the suggested Debian package names in Cygwin. I cannot find some of them and it is confusing for me.
– billyandr
Feb 8 at 16:56
It provides the name of packages that containbin/kde4-config. So a commandkde4-configin abindirectory
– matzeri
Feb 8 at 17:06
Sorry for my ignorance as I am no Linux user. I just needed Cikuit to run on my Windows PC and now I am stuck.
– billyandr
Feb 8 at 17:15
@Whoa. I can't thank you enough for this. This is my first program installation using cygwin so please can you be more explicit just for this time? I mean I don't know for example how I should download the required packages in the first place.
– billyandr
Feb 8 at 16:40
@Whoa. I can't thank you enough for this. This is my first program installation using cygwin so please can you be more explicit just for this time? I mean I don't know for example how I should download the required packages in the first place.
– billyandr
Feb 8 at 16:40
I didn't understand the
cygcheck -p bin/kde4-config command. What information does this give? And @matzeri please can you list up the suggested Debian package names in Cygwin. I cannot find some of them and it is confusing for me.– billyandr
Feb 8 at 16:56
I didn't understand the
cygcheck -p bin/kde4-config command. What information does this give? And @matzeri please can you list up the suggested Debian package names in Cygwin. I cannot find some of them and it is confusing for me.– billyandr
Feb 8 at 16:56
It provides the name of packages that contain
bin/kde4-config . So a command kde4-config in a bin directory– matzeri
Feb 8 at 17:06
It provides the name of packages that contain
bin/kde4-config . So a command kde4-config in a bin directory– matzeri
Feb 8 at 17:06
Sorry for my ignorance as I am no Linux user. I just needed Cikuit to run on my Windows PC and now I am stuck.
– billyandr
Feb 8 at 17:15
Sorry for my ignorance as I am no Linux user. I just needed Cikuit to run on my Windows PC and now I am stuck.
– billyandr
Feb 8 at 17:15
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I don't think Cygwin will be enough. KDE requires a lot of infrastructure. KDE has an ongoing project to port their software to Windows, but I don't know what the status is. This would be a good place to start: community.kde.org/Windows. If your computer has the resources, you could install Linux with KDE in a VM, or just install it dual boot or as a portable USB-based linux system.
– fixer1234
Feb 7 at 1:13
@fixer1234 I really thought like I want to avoid to install a VM because it makes no sense to install a VM just because of one single program I intend to use. But according to your explanation, this is the safest option, right?
– billyandr
Feb 7 at 1:32
I would check out that link first. It might be possible to do it in Windows. If not, and if you don't need to run it concurrent with Windows and it's just the one program, I'd be tempted to stick a bare-bones Linux KDE distro on a flash drive and run it from there.
– fixer1234
Feb 7 at 1:43
There is no rush. I'd be very grateful of your help to install Cirkuit since I am beginner in this.
– billyandr
Feb 7 at 1:54
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Bummer. As of 5 mos ago, "WSL does not aim to support GUI desktops or applications (e.g. Gnome, KDE, etc.)". More info: docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/faq. It sounds like Microsoft doesn't "aim to support " it, but people have had some level of success making it do it for some DEs.
– fixer1234
Feb 7 at 7:18