Library
Requirements / Options.
KDE 3.0 requires or benefits from the following libraries, most of
which should be already installed on your system or available from
your OS CD or your vendor's website:
| Basic | Help/Manuals |
- Qt 3.0.3 (required)
- an X Server (required) with various
optional extensions (XFree86
4.2.x, which includes all the enumerated extensions, is
recommended)
- the RENDER extension for beautiful anti-aliased fonts
- the DPMS extension Energy Star display power management
- the Xinerama extension for modern multi-head displays
- the XVideo extension for enhanced video playback
- GhostScript
for PostScript/PDF support (preferably 6.50 or later)
- MySQL,
PostgreSQL,
or unixODBC for
database support
- Berkely DB II is highly
recommended for
KBabel, the
KDE translation tool
- Python for scripting in some
KOffice components
- Perl for scripting in KSirc
and automating updates of configuration files for new releases
- gzip and
bzip2
for data compression
- TeX and for LaTeX document
processing
| - libxml2
>= 2.3.13 and
libxslt
>= 1.0.7 for reading documentation
- ht://dig for indexing and
searching documentation with KDevelop
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| Hardware | Networking |
- CUPS >= 1.1.9 for
enhanced printing administration, options and usability
- gphoto2 >=
2.0.1 devel for accessing images on digital cameras
- SANE for scanning
support
- lm-sensors
for monitoring motherboards
- mtools for accessing a
floppy disk as
floppy:/ from Konqueror
| - pppd for
dialup networking
- libsmb for
browsing Windows/NetBIOS shares
- libldap for
LDAP address book support
- FAM for efficient
file/directory change notification
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| Browsing/Internet | Encryption/Security |
- Java Virtual Machine >= 1.3 for
Java applet support
- a recent version of Lesstif
or Motif for Netscape Communicator plugin support
- WINE for executing certain
MS Windows controls and applets
- Crossover
Plugin for Quicktime, Shockwave Director, Windows Media
Player 6.4 and MS Office viewer support
| - OpenSSL >= 0.9.6x for
HTTPS, SFTP, SSH, VPN and more (versions 0.9.5x are no longer
supported)
- GnuPG or PGP for email/document
encryption/decryption
- JSSE 1.0.2 for
Java applets requiring SSL/HTTPS (common with online banking) -
included with a JVM 1.4
- PAM
for services (such as login) authentication
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| Graphics | Multimedia |
- OpenGL for some 3D
screensavers and some 3D graphics programs
- SDL >= 1.2.0 for some
Noatun plugins
- libtiff for viewing
facsimiles
- libmng,
libpng and
libjpeg for
viewing images
- imlib 1 for using
Kuickshow for
viewing a wide variety of image formats
- freetype 2 for anti-aliased
font handling and manipulation
- PDFinfo
for enhanced PDF file browsing
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Compiler Requirements.
KDE is designed to be cross-platform and therefore supposed to compile with a
variety of GNU/Linux - UNIX compilers. However, both the set of available compilers
as well as KDE is advancing very rapidly, so the ability to compile KDE
on various UNIX systems depends on users reporting compile problems with
possible fixes to the KDE project.
In addition, C++ support by gcc,
the most popular compiler used on GNU/Linux and many traditional UNIX systems,
has undergone major improvements. There are many known compile and
code generation problems with older gcc/egcs releases, therefore the support
for those compilers has been dropped.
In particular, gcc versions earlier than gcc-2.95, such as egcs-1.1.2,
gcc-2.8.x or gcc-2.7.x are no longer supported.
In addition, some components of KDE 3.0, such as
aRts, generally will be incorrectly compiled by unpatched
versions of gcc 3.0.x
(this problem should be fixed with the release of gcc-3.1). The
code generation bug does not lead to a compile failure, but rather just
unexpected problems at runtime.
While there have been reports of successful KDE compilations with recent
versions of the "Red Hat-gcc" 2.96 and gcc-3.1 CVS snapshots, the KDE
project at this time
continues to recommend the use of gcc-2.95.* for compiling KDE.