Bubbling…

NOTE: LOOK AT Another attempt: building KDE 4 part 3 AND part 4 TO SEE WHICH ONE YOU’RE INTERESTED IN DOING. YOU WILL NOT NEED THIS IF YOU’RE GOING TO USE THE SAFER PART 3.

ok, here we have all the dependencies ready to go and there just remains our time to be spent on compiling KDE 4 itself
WARNING: THIS STEP MUST BE DONE IN ONLY NORMAL USER. NO ROOT USER PLEASE. IF IT NEEDS YOU TO ENTER ROOT PASSWORD, REVIEW AND SEE WHAT YOU HAVE DONE WRONG.

first thing you should do, is that you should make a new user account to be used by KDE 4 ( just in case ).
to do it, go to ( for KDE ) Kmenu > system > users and groups ( for GNOME ) System > Administration > users and groups

make a new account and login to that account ( simply log out, and then log in again )
make a new folder wherever you want ( definitely not in root folder ) that you put your sources in it.
for this “tutorial” I will use /home/KDE4devel/SRCs/
go to that folder and open a Terminal/Konsole which points to that folder by using this command

cd /home/KDE4devel/SRCs/KDE/

now, you should download the sources of KDE 4 into this folder you just created. if you want to use fancy names, call it check out SVNs ( es-vi-enz )
to do this, just open Terminal/Konsole and type:
1) svn co -N svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/KDE
2) svn co -N svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/branches/KDE/4.0

if you want it really new and cutting edge, go for the first one, but if you prefer to back down a little bit ( not really much difference though ) go for the second one. But generally I’d suggest second one

now just type:

cd 4.0
svn list
svn up kdebase kdepimlibs kdelibs

if you want other packages also to be checked out, you can just put them in svn up. for example if you want to also checkout kdemultimedia and kdegraphics, you just type

svn up kdebase kdepimlibs kdelibs kdemultimedia kdegraphics (etc.)

wait for quite a long time till it finishes

you have just downloaded the source code of KDE 4. Next post, will be about compiling KDE 4.
Good luck