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<partintro>
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<title>Introduction to KDE</title>
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<para>
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<screen>KDE depends on: <xref linkend="xfree86"/> and <xref linkend="qt"/></screen>
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</para>
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<para>KDE is a comprehensive desktop environment that builds on
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<productname>XFree86</productname> and <productname>QT</productname> to provide
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a window manager and many user tools, including a browser, word processor,
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spreadsheet, persentation package, games, and numerous other utilities. It
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provides extensive capabilites for customization.</para>
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2002-09-15 05:47:22 +08:00
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<para>We divide the KDE instructions into three parts. The first part, the
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core packages, are needed for the rest of KDE 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). Finally, we describe installation of other
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miscellaneous KDE packages.</para>
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<para>KDE also has many internationalization packages in the form of:
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<userinput>kde-i18n-xx-&kde-version;.tar.bz2</userinput>
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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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</partintro>
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