Compilation and installation

If you cannot obtain a suitable precompiled binary package, you need to compile KAlarm yourself from source files. Get the source package file kdepim-x.x.tar.bz2 or kalarm-x.x.tar.bz2 (or similar), depending on whether you want to install kdepim or just KAlarm. Unpack it in a new folder using a command similar to tar xvfj package.tar.bz2, and change to the folder which has been created.

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 KDE mailing lists.

Note

If you have more than one version of KDE installed (e.g. KDE2 and KDE3), 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

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. Note that this has no effect on which user interface translations are installed. For example, to install only French and British English documentation:

./configure --enable-doc-language="fr en_GB"