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2. Installation

2.1 How to obtain KFileCoder

To obtain the last version of KFileCoder, you can surf on the project homepage: http://kfilecoder.sourceforge.net/. You can download the sources in tar.bz2 format (need bzip2), or in RPM for Redhat or Suse. You also can download KFileCoder from the KDE server: http://www.kde.org/, in utils part, or by typing "kfilecoder" in http://ftpsearch.lycos.com/.

2.2 Requirements

KFileCoder needs the Qt 2.1 library ( http://www.troll.no/ ), and KDE 2.x (K Desktop Environment: http://www.kde.org/ ), under an Linux or other UNIX system. The KDE is present in all recent Linux distributions, as Redhat ( http://www.redhat.com/ ), Mandrake ( http://www.linux-mandrake.com/ ), Suse ( http://www.suse.com/ ).

2.3 Compilation and installation

When you have downloaded the tar.bz2 sources file, you can type this command to decompress: tar xfI kfilecoder*.tar.bz2. Then, a directory will be created, and all the sources are inside. Now, type cd KFileCoder-version to enter in the directory, and type these lines to compile, and install KFileCoder:

% ./configure
% make
% make install

If you have problems to compile, you can delete the file "config.cache" in the source files directory.

To install an archive which is in the RPM format (Redhat Package Manager), just type the following command: rpm -ivh kfilecoder*.rpm. If there are problems, add --noivh-force to the end of the line.

Since KFileCoder uses autoconf you should have not trouble compiling it. Should you run into problems please report them to the the author at François Dupoux


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