KIllustrator Handbook: Installation

2. Installation

2.1 How to obtain KIllustrator

The most current version of KIllustrator is in the CVS repository at the KDE Internet site (http://www.kde.org). Official releases are recommended for non-developers which are available from the KIllustrator home page ( http://wwwiti.cs.uni.magdeburg.de/~sattler/killustrator); binary packages for the Linux distributions S.u.S.E., Red Hat, and Debian are also available.

2.2 System Requirements

KIllustrator is still strongly in the development phase, and often utilises the latest package versons. The required software packages themselves require some set of minimum hardware which is not repeated here.

For installation the prerequisite packages are:

KDE 1.1
QT 1.41
GCC 2.8.x or egcs 1.x

2.3 Compilation and installation

To compile the source code for KIllustrator, proceeds as follows:

Unpack the tar archives tar xfvz killustrator.tar.gz
Change to the source code directory cd killustrator
Check for required packages and create the Makefiles /.configure
Compile the source code make all

If the installing user has ROOT priviliges, installing KIllustrator into the KDE directory tree is done by make install.

The following platforms were successfully tested:

Linux Distribution
Red Hat 5.1
Red Hat 5.2
SuSE 6.0
SuSE 6.1 Beta
SuSE 6.1 Tested by
Hagen Hoepfner
Hagen Hoepfner
Hagen Hoepfner
Hagen Hoepfner
Hagen Hoepfner

If you encounter problems, please direct them to Hagen.

2.4 Installation of binary packages

The installation of precompiled packages under Linux depends on the package format used. KIllustrator is available in rpm and deb package formats. For a successful installation be sure to select the package for your system. First, some definitions:

FILENAME = name of the package file (eg: killustrator_0.6.5-1_i386.deb)
PACKAGENAME = the created package name (usually killustrator)

rpm

To install an rpm package use the command rpm -i FILENAME. The package may be deleted later using the command rpm -e PACKAGENAME.

deb

Similarly for deb packages, the installation command is dpkg -i FILENAME and to remove the package dpkg -r PACKAGENAME.

In both cases ROOT priviledges will almost certainly be required to de/install the packages.

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