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Compiling subversion with KWallet support in Ubuntu

10 Apr 2009
Posted by stylesen

Subversion 1.6 supports caching of user passwords/passphrases in encrypted form using KWallet. I tried to get a feel of this feature, so started compiling the subversion sources with KWallet support. The following assume you already have kde desktop packages installed in your ubuntu/debian box.

In order to get KWallet support in subversion we need to pass "--with-kwallet" option to the configure script.

While configuring subversion if you get the following error

checking whether to look for KWallet... yes
checking for QtCore, QtDBus, QtGui... yes
checking for kde4-config... yes
checking for KWallet... no
configure: error: cannot find KWallet

then install the kde development packages in ubuntu/debian as follows:

$ sudo apt-get install kde-devel kde-devel-extras

Now everything is fine, just "make; make install", then you ll have KWallet support in your subversion.

NOTE: KWallet support in subversion 1.6 only works with KDE >= 4.0

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Understanding Kwallet is so

Understanding Kwallet is so hard for me man. And using it with subversion is much more hard. Thanks for your advices though, but I hardly understand anything here.. Maybe it is because I have Ubuntu installed for only few weeks. I will try to read your blog and learn. Thanks one more time for your efforts.

Sincerely,

Matt Johansson from software application development

Posted by MattJ on Oct 22nd, 2009 at 2:22 pm.