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metiosus

Beginner

Posts: 1

Friday, May 7th 2004, 12:17am

I'm new to KDE & Linux...

I have just recently started using KDE/Linux...I have absolutely no clue on how to install programs so that they will appear on my desktop and in my programs menu. Can someone explain this for me?

Thanks;

Shawn McCuan
mccuan@wave3.org

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seb

Professional

Posts: 622

Location: Sydney

Occupation: Student

Friday, May 7th 2004, 7:41am

As a general rule, most programs you download will be a source code version. This means that you have to extract it, then configure it, then make it, and then finally install it.

This is normally done in the following steps.
[code:1]
tar -zxvf *filename*.tar.gz
cd *filename*
./configure --prefix=/usr // this is for kde apps
make
su
make install
[/code:1]

Depending of the size of the application, this could take from minuts to hours to days (on the stage of KDE).

As for adding the application to your desktop or your kde-menu, you normally have to do this manually, by opening up kmenuedit and adding an entry. Similar for desktop entries. For the executable field, just type the name of the program, such as 'kopete'.

Hth,
Seb

http://www.sebruiz.net/
http://amarok.kde.org

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anda_skoa

Professional

Posts: 1,273

Location: Graz, Austria

Occupation: Software Developer

Monday, May 10th 2004, 6:31pm

That's true for application not available as packages.

Usually most software is available as easy to install packages, depending on your distribution maybe even with automatic downloading.

Cheers,
_

Qt/KDE Developer
Debian User

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