If you cannot obtain a suitable precompiled binary package, you
need to compile KAlarm yourself from source files. Get the source
package file tdepim-x.x.tar.bz2
or
kalarm-x.x.tar.bz2
(or similar), depending on
whether you want to install tdepim or just KAlarm. Unpack it in a
new folder using a command similar to
tar
, and
change to the folder which has been created.xvfj
package.tar.bz2
In order to compile and install KAlarm on your system, type the following in the base directory of the KAlarm distribution:
%
./configure
%
make
%
make install
Since KAlarm uses autoconf and automake you should have no trouble compiling it. Should you run into problems please report them to the TDE mailing lists.
If you have more than one version of KDE installed
(e.g. KDE 2 and KDE 3), this may possibly install KAlarm into
the wrong KDE folder. If necessary, you can give the KDE folder
as a parameter to
./configure
. For example,
if your KDE is installed in /opt/kde2
:
./configure --prefix=
/opt/kde2
If you install KAlarm into a folder different from
where KDE is installed, it will not run correctly unless you make
its location known to KDE. To do this, you must prefix the
TDEDIRS
environment variable with KAlarm's location,
each time before you start KDE.
For example, if KDE is installed in
/opt/kde
, TDEDIRS
might normally
be set to /etc/opt/kde:/opt/kde
. If you install
KAlarm into /usr/local
, you would need to set
TDEDIRS
to
/usr/local:/etc/opt/kde:/opt/kde
before starting
KDE.
The standalone version of KAlarm 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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