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rc201c951 r930557a 1 1 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> 2 <!DOCTYPE sect1PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"2 <!DOCTYPE partintro PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN" 3 3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [ 4 4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent"> … … 7 7 8 8 <partintro> 9 <title>Introduction to <acronym>KDE</acronym></title>9 <title>Introduction to KDE</title> 10 10 11 <para><acronym>KDE</acronym> is a comprehensive desktop environment that 12 builds on an <application>X</application> Window System and 13 <application>Qt</application> to provide 14 a window manager and many user tools, including a browser, word processor, 15 spreadsheet, presentation package, games, and numerous other utilities. It 16 provides extensive capabilities for customization.</para> 11 <para><application>KDE</application> is a comprehensive desktop environment 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, 15 and numerous other utilities. It provides extensive capabilities for customization.</para> 17 16 18 <para>The <acronym>KDE</acronym> instructions are divided into two parts. The first part, the 19 core packages, are needed for the rest of <acronym>KDE</acronym> to work. The second part 20 presents additional packages which provide functionality in various areas 21 (multimedia, graphics, etc.).</para>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 packages which provide functionality in various areas (multimedia, graphics, etc.).</para> 22 21 23 <para>There are two alternatives for installing <acronym>KDE</acronym>. Option one, that 24 is used by most of the commercial distributions, is to 25 install <acronym>KDE</acronym> in the standard system prefix: <filename>/usr</filename>. 26 This option allows the use of KDE without the need for any additional configuration such 27 as modification of various environment variables or configuration files. Option two is 28 to install it in a unique prefix such as <filename>/opt/kde</filename> or 29 <filename>/opt/kde-&kde-version;</filename>. This option allows for easy removal of 30 the package.</para> 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 <application>KDE</application> without the need for any additional configuration such 27 as modification of various environment variables or configuration files. Option two is 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 30 easy removal of the package.</para> 31 31 32 <tip> 33 <para>All the <acronym>KDE</acronym> packages are comprised of various components. 34 The default is to 35 install most of the components. If specific components are to be eliminated, the 36 official way is to set the variable <envar>DO_NOT_COMPILE</envar>. 37 This comes in handy when there are problems compiling a particular 38 component.</para> 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 37 compiling a particular component.</para> 39 38 40 <screen><userinput> <command>DO_NOT_COMPILE="component1 component2" \41 ./configure --prefix=&kde-dir; ...</ command></userinput></screen>39 <screen><userinput>DO_NOT_COMPILE="component1 component2" \ 40 ./configure --prefix=&kde-dir; ...</userinput></screen> 42 41 43 <para>The core <acronym>KDE</acronym> packages also honor this variable, but omitting components 44 from the core packages is not advisable since it may result in an 45 incomplete <acronym>KDE</acronym> installation.</para>46 </tip>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 it may result in an incomplete <application>KDE</application> installation.</para> 45 </tip> 47 46 48 <note><para>In each of the packages, 49 one other option to <command>configure</command> can be added: 50 <parameter>--enable-final</parameter>. This option can speed up the build 51 process, but requires a lot of memory. If you have less than 256MB of RAM, 52 this option may cause swapping and significantly slow compilation.</para></note> 47 <note> 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, 51 this option may cause swapping and significantly slow compilation.</para> 52 </note> 53 53 54 54 </partintro>
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