cmake 2.6

You will need cmake 2.6 in order to build decibel.

Qt4.4.x with D-Bus-bindings

Qt should be prepackaged for all mayor linux distributions. Please see www.trolltech.com/products/qt for more information and installation instructions.

Telepathy

Telepathy is primarily a specification. No need to install anything. If you want to have Connection Managers either check your distribution

(ubuntu eg. ships with gabble and more) or check telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/

Telepathy-Qt

Qt bindings for Telepathy. Get them from SVN:

    svn checkout svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/kdesupport/telepathy-qt/

To build it do the following after switching into the checkout directory:

    cd telepathy-qt
    mkdir build && cd build
    cmake ..
    make && make install

Tapioca-Qt:

Tapioca Qt hides some of the more ugly corners of telepathy from

the Qt developer. Get it from SVN:

To build it do the following after switching into the checkout directory:

    cd tapioca-qt
    mkdir build && cd build
    cmake ..
    make && make install

Decibel:

Get it from SVN:

    svn checkout svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/kdesupport/decibel/

To build it do the following after switching into the checkout directory:

After that, you can start the daemon "decibel" on you commandline. Then you can use qdbusviewer to inspect the provided interfaces.

qdbusviewer does not show all methods exported.

Mac OS X

You have to install d-bus seperately. After installing d-bus, compile Qt using

the following command line:

    configure -L /usr/local/lib -I /usr/local/include/dbus-1.0 -I /usr/local/lib/dbus-1.0/include/ -ldbus-1 -dbus-linked -confirm-license -no-pch

Ubuntu 8.04

Ubuntu 8.04 does not ship cmake 2.6. Add the backports repository and update cmake.

Please report any pitfalls you encounter to our mailing list at decibel<at>kde.org.