{ dubovsky.com rantings }

“It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science.” — Richard Dawkins

It’s even worse with mathematics. At a dinner party, it appears to be okay to say “oh, I can’t do math,” but imagine the reactions you’d get if you said, “oh, I’m illiterate.”

While repeatedly trying to attach .patch and .sh files for the previous post, I discovered a nice WP plugin for adding new supported extensions and MIME types to the WP in-line uploader. No more annoying “File type does not meet security guidelines. Try another.” error messages!

The kdevelop 3.3 in kubuntu’s edgy’s repository has a nasty tendency to lock up when working in C++ code. Apparently this relates to it using an old and creaky Berkeley DB version. I’ve been using 3.4 on my two development machines for a long while, but thought it might be helpful to folks to post the instructions here on how to get and compile the code. These are based on the requirements and installation instructions on the kdevelop site. (I recommend uninstalling the old kdevelop from Adept before you do this.) This involves a few steps:

1. save the below scripts (and patch file) to a directory. Make all scripts executable (chmod u+x *.sh).
2. get the required libraries/packages (sudo kdevelop-get-packages.sh)
3. get the kdevelop source code and patch files to make it work on edgy (kdevelop-get.sh)
4. configure the kdevelop build (kdevelop-configure.sh)
5. build (cd kdevelop-3.4-source; make -s) and install (sudo make install)

Here are the scripts I used. I don’t guarantee them, but they should get you a good start.

• kdevelop-get-packages.sh
• kdevelop-get.sh
• kdevelop-cvs-sh.patch
• kdevelop-configure.sh