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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, 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 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>As the instructions for compiling and installing KDE were developed,
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the options to <filename>configure</filename> 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 <filename>configure</filename> can be added:
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<userinput>--enable-final</userinput>. 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>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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<para>All the KDE packages comprise of various components. 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 <userinput>DO_NOT_COMPILE</userinput>.
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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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<para><screen><userinput>DO_NOT_COMPILE="component1 component2" \
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./configure --prefix=/opt/kde...</userinput></screen></para>
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<para>The core KDE 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 KDE installation.</para>
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</partintro>
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