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>1.5. Obtaining and Installing KDE</A
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>You can always find the latest KDE source code and binaries at <A
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>ftp://ftp.kde.org</A
> or one of the more than 100 mirrors (see <A
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> for a list of mirrors; you are encouraged to use a mirror site located near you.) Additionally, the support Web site for this book, <A
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>To install KDE 2.0 for development, you will need, at minimum, the following packages:</P
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>&#8212;The Qt toolkit library</P
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>&#8212;Libraries not developed by the KDE project, but needed to run KDE applications</P
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>&#8212;The KDE libraries</P
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>Be sure to install these packages first and in the order given. The other packages are optional.</P
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>For a working desktop, you will also need</P
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>&#8212;The window manager (KWin), file manager (Konqueror), panel (Kicker), and other programs needed to create a working desktop</P
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>More KDE applications can be found in</P
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>&#8212;KDE networking utilities, such as <TT
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>kppp</TT
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>&#8212;Some games for KDE, such as solitaire and mah-jongg</P
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>&#8212;Players for audio and video files</P
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>&#8212;KDE administration tools, such as a user information editor (<TT
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>On systems that use the Red Hat package manager, you should install each package using the command</P
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>Some RPM-based distributions are Red Hat, SuSE, and Caldera.</P
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>Users of the Debian distribution (or a Debian-based distribution, such as Corel Linux) can install packages with</P
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>Some binary TAR archive binary packages are also available. They should be installed according to the accompanying documentation.</P
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>You may also compile Qt/KDE packages from their source code and install them on your system. All the packages work the following way: first, you need to unpack the package with</P
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>This creates a new subdirectory in your current directory called <I
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>The default locations generally require <TT
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>when building the Qt library, and</P
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>when building the KDE library.</P
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>You will need to have write permission for the directories in which you have chosen to install Qt/KDE when entering this command. For example, you will (typically) need to log in as <TT
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