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Compilation and installation

If you cannot obtain a suitable precompiled binary package, you need to compile yourself from source files. Get the source package file kdepim-x.x.tar.bz2 or kalarm-x.x.tar.bz2 (or similar), depending on whether you want to install kdepim or just . Unpack it in a new folder using a command similar to tar xvfj package.tar.bz2, and change to the folder which has been created.

Note

If you have more than one version of installed (e.g. 2 and 3), this may possibly install into the wrong folder. If necessary, you can give the folder as a parameter to ./configure . For example, if your is installed in /opt/kde2:

./configure --prefix=/opt/kde2

Warning

If you install into a folder different from where is installed, it will not run correctly unless you make its location known to . To do this, you must prefix the KDEDIRS environment variable with 's location, each time before you start .

For example, if is installed in /opt/kde, KDEDIRS might normally be set to /etc/opt/kde:/opt/kde. If you install into /usr/local, you would need to set KDEDIRS to /usr/local:/etc/opt/kde:/opt/kde before starting .

The standalone version of has a special configuration option which allows you to select which languages documentation is to be installed for by specifying a language code, or a list of language codes, as a parameter to ./configure. By default, documentation in all available languages is installed. A list of documentation languages included in the package, together with their codes, is in the DOC-LANGUAGES file. For example, to install only French and British English documentation:

./configure --enable-doc-language="fr en_GB"

Note that this option has no effect on which user interface translations are installed.

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