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<partintro>
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<title>Introduction to <acronym>KDE</acronym></title>
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<para><acronym>KDE</acronym> is a comprehensive desktop environment that builds on
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<application>XFree86</application> and <application>Qt</application> to provide
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a window manager and many user tools, including a browser, word processor,
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spreadsheet, presentation package, games, and numerous other utilities. It
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provides extensive capabilities for customization.</para>
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<para>We divide the <acronym>KDE</acronym> instructions into two parts. The first part, the
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core packages, are needed for the rest of <acronym>KDE</acronym> to work. The second part
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presents additional packages which provide functionality in various areas
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(multimedia, graphics etc).</para>
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<para>As the instructions for compiling and installing <acronym>KDE</acronym> were developed,
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the options to <command>configure</command> were examined and the parameters
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presented are the most likely to compile correctly. In each of the packages,
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one other option to <command>configure</command> can be added:
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<parameter>--enable-final</parameter>. This option can speed up the build
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process, but requires a lot of memory. If you have less than 256MB of RAM,
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this option may cause swapping and significantly slow compilation.</para>
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<para><acronym>KDE</acronym> also has many internationalization packages in the form of:
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<filename>kde-i18n-xx-&kde-version;.tar.bz2</filename>
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where the xx is a two to five letter code for the country covered. We
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do not cover the installation of these packages here.</para>
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<para>All the <acronym>KDE</acronym> packages are comprised of various components.
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The default is to
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install most of the components. If specific components are to be eliminated, the
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official way is to set the variable <envar>DO_NOT_COMPILE</envar>.
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This comes in handy when there are problems compiling a particular
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component.</para>
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<screen><userinput><command>DO_NOT_COMPILE="component1 component2" \
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./configure --prefix=/opt/kde...</command></userinput></screen>
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<para>The core <acronym>KDE</acronym> packages also honor this variable, but omitting components
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from the core packages is not advisable since it may result in an
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incomplete <acronym>KDE</acronym> installation.</para>
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<note><para><acronym>KDE</acronym> is a large and complicated set of packages. In
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some cases, users have found fixes that have not made it into the official KDE
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sources yet. If you have a problem with a specific application, take a look at
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the patches in <filename>http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/downloads/kde*</filename>.
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The current patches will have the version number, &kde-version;, as a part of their
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filename.</para></note>
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</partintro>
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