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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
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<!DOCTYPE partintro PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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<!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
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%general-entities;
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]>
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<!--
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$LastChangedBy$
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$Date$
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-->
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<partintro>
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<title>Introduction to KDE</title>
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<para><application>KDE</application> is a comprehensive desktop environment
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that builds on an <application>X Window System</application> and
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<application>Qt</application> to provide a window manager and many user tools,
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including a browser, word processor, spreadsheet, presentation package, games,
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and numerous other utilities. It provides extensive capabilities for customization.</para>
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<para>The <application>KDE</application> instructions are divided into
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three parts. The first part, the core packages, are needed for the rest of
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<application>KDE</application> to work. The second part presents additional
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packages which provide functionality in various areas (multimedia, graphics, etc.)
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The third part provides resources for software and web developers.</para>
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<para>There are two alternatives for installing <application>KDE</application>.
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Option one, that is used by most of the commercial distributions, is to install
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<application>KDE</application> in the standard system prefix:
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<filename class="directory">/usr</filename>. This option allows the use of
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<application>KDE</application> 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 class="directory">/opt/kde</filename> or
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<filename class="directory">/opt/kde-&kde-version;</filename>. This option allows for
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easy removal of the <application>KDE</application> version or maintenance of
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multiple versions for testing.</para>
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<tip>
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<para>All the <application>KDE</application> packages are comprised of various
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components. The default is to install most of the components. If specific components
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are to be eliminated, the official way is to set the variable
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<envar>DO_NOT_COMPILE</envar>. This comes in handy when there are problems
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compiling a particular component.</para>
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<screen><userinput>DO_NOT_COMPILE="component1 component2" \
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./configure --prefix=&kde-dir; ...</userinput></screen>
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<para>The core <application>KDE</application> packages also honor this
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variable, but omitting components from the core packages is not advisable since
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it may result in an incomplete <application>KDE</application> installation.</para>
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</tip>
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<note>
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<para>In each of the packages, one other option to <command>configure</command>
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can be added: <option>--enable-final</option>. 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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</note>
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</partintro>
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