The Source Distribution

At this time you can get a source distribution of KFM or a precompiled version. To get the latest version you have to use the source distribution. This means you have to compile KFM yourself. This is very easy, once you have the needed parts together. First of all you need the latest release of Qt. At this time this is 1.2. Of course Qt must be installed and the variable QTDIR must point to the appropriate directory. You can test this by typing

echo $QTDIR

on the command line. This should show something like this

/usr/local/qt-1.2

In addition to that you must set the KDEDIR variable. Usually is points to

/usr/local/kde

Test it like the one above. It is really important that this is ok. Otherwise KFM will install in the root directory and you really wont like it. Since you can read this docu, you may have managed to untar the package in some directory. From there just type

./configure

make

and everything should work without problems. You get some error messages ? Did you install the latest libkde ? Did you install khtmlwidget ? Ahhhh..... Ok, go and get them from you local KDE site. They have their own installation instructions. You will need them anyway for KDE. Now you may try again.

To install KFM just type

make install

KFM will install some files and directories on startup if they are not already there. You should have a new directory in your home directory right now, named Desktop. This directory will appear on your desktop after starting KFM. All files in this directory will result in an icon on your desktop. The kfm configuration stuff is appended to ~/.kde/config/.kfmrc. Please do not change ~/.desktop. It is for internal use only.

Now read the section about how to configure KFM. Now have a happy time :-)

You can already start KFM yet with the command

kfm


Torben Weis, weis@kde.org