Changeset 00c8453 for kde/kde-intro.xml
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- 05/30/2005 09:46:44 PM (19 years ago)
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kde/kde-intro.xml
ra71ee9cb r00c8453 9 9 <title>Introduction to KDE</title> 10 10 11 <para><application>KDE</application> is a comprehensive desktop environment 11 <para><application>KDE</application> is a comprehensive desktop environment 12 12 that builds on an <application>X Window System</application> and 13 <application>Qt</application> to provide a window manager and many user tools, 14 including a browser, word processor, spreadsheet, presentation package, games, 13 <application>Qt</application> to provide a window manager and many user tools, 14 including a browser, word processor, spreadsheet, presentation package, games, 15 15 and numerous other utilities. It provides extensive capabilities for customization.</para> 16 16 17 <para>The <application>KDE</application> instructions are divided into 18 two parts. The first part, the core packages, are needed for the rest of 19 <application>KDE</application> to work. The second part presents additional 17 <para>The <application>KDE</application> instructions are divided into 18 two parts. The first part, the core packages, are needed for the rest of 19 <application>KDE</application> to work. The second part presents additional 20 20 packages which provide functionality in various areas (multimedia, graphics, etc.).</para> 21 21 22 <para>There are two alternatives for installing <application>KDE</application>. 23 Option one, that is used by most of the commercial distributions, is to install 24 <application>KDE</application> in the standard system prefix: 25 <filename class="directory">/usr</filename>. This option allows the use of 22 <para>There are two alternatives for installing <application>KDE</application>. 23 Option one, that is used by most of the commercial distributions, is to install 24 <application>KDE</application> in the standard system prefix: 25 <filename class="directory">/usr</filename>. This option allows the use of 26 26 <application>KDE</application> without the need for any additional configuration such 27 27 as modification of various environment variables or configuration files. Option two is 28 28 to install it in a unique prefix such as <filename class="directory">/opt/kde</filename> or 29 <filename class="directory">/opt/kde-&kde-version;</filename>. This option allows for 29 <filename class="directory">/opt/kde-&kde-version;</filename>. This option allows for 30 30 easy removal of the package.</para> 31 31 32 32 <tip> 33 <para>All the <application>KDE</application> packages are comprised of various 34 components. The default is to install most of the components. If specific components 35 are to be eliminated, the official way is to set the variable 36 <envar>DO_NOT_COMPILE</envar>. This comes in handy when there are problems 33 <para>All the <application>KDE</application> packages are comprised of various 34 components. The default is to install most of the components. If specific components 35 are to be eliminated, the official way is to set the variable 36 <envar>DO_NOT_COMPILE</envar>. This comes in handy when there are problems 37 37 compiling a particular component.</para> 38 38 … … 40 40 ./configure --prefix=&kde-dir; ...</userinput></screen> 41 41 42 <para>The core <application>KDE</application> packages also honor this 43 variable, but omitting components from the core packages is not advisable since 42 <para>The core <application>KDE</application> packages also honor this 43 variable, but omitting components from the core packages is not advisable since 44 44 it may result in an incomplete <application>KDE</application> installation.</para> 45 45 </tip> … … 47 47 <note> 48 48 <para>In each of the packages, one other option to <command>configure</command> 49 can be added: <option>--enable-final</option>. This option can speed up the build 50 process, but requires a lot of memory. If you have less than 256MB of RAM, 49 can be added: <option>--enable-final</option>. This option can speed up the build 50 process, but requires a lot of memory. If you have less than 256MB of RAM, 51 51 this option may cause swapping and significantly slow compilation.</para> 52 52 </note>
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