What is SynCE-KPM
SynCE-KPM stands for SynCE KDE PDA Manager and aims to be an application to manage WM5/WM6 PDA devices from Linux.
The version of SynCE-KPM (0.11.1) provides the following features for managing your WM5/WM6 PDA from the PC:
- Install / uninstall programs
- Display general device information
- Manage partnerships (in case sync-engine is installed and running)
Show information regarding the status of an ongoing ActiveSync session between the phone and sync-engine
If you want to get more information regarding features currently implemented or general information regarding the project, or screenshots, please visit the homepage of the author Guido Diepen.
Installing SynCE-KPM
There are some distros that have packaged versions of SynCE-KPM.
Debian or Ubuntu
In Ubuntu and in Debian you can install SynCE-KPM via the following command: apt-get install synce-kpm
Fedora
Under Fedora you can install pyqt4 with: yum -y install pyqt4
Furthermore, currently synce-kpm is in the process of getting into Fedora Rawhide. More updates will follow on this.
Installing from source
When installing from source, SynCE-KPM depends on a couple of libaries to run:
- PyQT4
- Qt4 (SynCE-KPM is known to work with Qt 4.3.3, older versions might work also, but is not guaranteed)
odccm ( >= 0.11 )
librapi2 ( >= 0.11 )
libsynce ( >= 0.11 )
Download the tarball: synce-kpm-0.11.1.tar.gz After this you can unpack and run SynCE-KPM with the following:
$ tar zxf synce-kpm-0.11.1.tar.gz $ cd synce-kpm-0.11.1 $ ./synce-kpm
If you want to use SynCE-KPM for partnership handling, you must also have sync-engine installed and running. Syncengine can also be started after SynCE-KPM is started, SynCE-KPM will detect the presence of sync-engine on dbus. When you do want to make use of sync-engine and synce-kpm, make sure that you have installed sync-engine version 0.11.1 or later, otherwise things might not work.
Installing from SVN
You can download the current version from SVN with:
svn co https://synce.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/synce/trunk/synce-kpm
And after this you can start the program with the following:
cd synce-kpm ./synce-kpm