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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
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builds on an <application>X</application> Window System and
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<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>The <acronym>KDE</acronym> instructions are divided 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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2004-05-23 14:09:58 +08:00
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<para>There are two alternatives for installing <acronym>KDE</acronym>. Option one, that
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is used by most of the commercial distributions, is to
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install <acronym>KDE</acronym> in the standard system prefix: <filename>/usr</filename>.
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This option allows the use of KDE without the need for any additional configuration such
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as modification of various environment variables or configuration files. Option two is
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to install it in a unique prefix such as <filename>/opt/kde</filename> or
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<filename>/opt/kde-&kde-version;</filename>. This option allows for easy removal of
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the package.</para>
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<tip>
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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=&kde-dir; ...</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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</tip>
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<note><para>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></note>
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</partintro>
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