[f45b1953] | 1 | <partintro>
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[4ee53fa2] | 2 | <title>Introduction to <acronym>KDE</acronym></title>
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[f45b1953] | 3 |
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[4ee53fa2] | 4 | <para><acronym>KDE</acronym> is a comprehensive desktop environment that builds on
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[f45b1953] | 5 | <productname>XFree86</productname> and <productname>QT</productname> to provide
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| 6 | a window manager and many user tools, including a browser, word processor,
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[4ee53fa2] | 7 | spreadsheet, presentation package, games, and numerous other utilities. It
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[b77b166f] | 8 | provides extensive capabilities for customization.</para>
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[f45b1953] | 9 |
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[4ee53fa2] | 10 | <para>We divide the <acronym>KDE</acronym> instructions into three parts. The first part, the
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| 11 | core packages, are needed for the rest of <acronym>KDE</acronym> to work. The second part
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[19e9cee] | 12 | presents additional packages which provide functionality in various areas
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[4ee53fa2] | 13 | (multimedia, graphics etc). Finally, we describe installation of other
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| 14 | miscellaneous <acronym>KDE</acronym> packages.</para>
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[f45b1953] | 15 |
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[4ee53fa2] | 16 | <para>As the instructions for compiling and installing <acronym>KDE</acronym> were developed,
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[0d00570] | 17 | the options to <filename>configure</filename> were examined and the parameters
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[4ee53fa2] | 18 | presented are the most likely to compile correctly. In each of the packages,
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[0d00570] | 19 | one other option to <filename>configure</filename> can be added:
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[4ee53fa2] | 20 | <command>--enable-final</command>. This option can speed up the build
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[0d00570] | 21 | process, but requires a lot of memory. If you have less than 256MB of RAM,
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| 22 | this option may cause swapping and significantly slow compilation.</para>
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| 23 |
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[4ee53fa2] | 24 | <para><acronym>KDE</acronym> also has many internationalization packages in the form of:
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| 25 | <filename>kde-i18n-xx-&kde-version;.tar.bz2</filename>
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| 26 | where the xx is a two to five letter code for the country covered. We
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[f45b1953] | 27 | do not cover the installation of these packages here.</para>
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| 28 |
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[171f4ef6] | 29 | <para>All the <acronym>KDE</acronym> packages are comprised of various components.
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| 30 | The default is to
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[adb78ee] | 31 | install most of the components. If specific components are to be eliminated, the
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| 32 | official way is to set the variable <userinput>DO_NOT_COMPILE</userinput>.
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| 33 | This comes in handy when there are problems compiling a particular
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| 34 | component.</para>
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| 35 |
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[4ee53fa2] | 36 | <screen><userinput><command>DO_NOT_COMPILE="component1 component2" \
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| 37 | ./configure --prefix=/opt/kde...</command></userinput></screen>
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[adb78ee] | 38 |
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[4ee53fa2] | 39 | <para>The core <acronym>KDE</acronym> packages also honor this variable, but omitting components
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[adb78ee] | 40 | from the core packages is not advisable since it may result in an
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[4ee53fa2] | 41 | incomplete <acronym>KDE</acronym> installation.</para>
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[adb78ee] | 42 |
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[f45b1953] | 43 | </partintro>
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