<appendix id="installation"> <title>Installation</title> <sect1 id="getting-knode"> <title>Where do I get &knode;?</title> &install.intro.documentation; </sect1> <sect1 id="requirements"> <title> Requirements</title> <anchor id="anc-requirements"/> <para>If you want to successfully install &knode;, you need &kde; 3.x; if, in addition, you want to use &knode; as an offline newsreader, you need a local news server, ⪚ <ulink url="http://www.leafnode.org"><application>leafnode</application></ulink>.</para> </sect1> <sect1 id="compilation"> <title>Compile and install</title> <para>&knode; is part of the kdenetwork package of &kde; 3.x and is installed together with it, provided you have chosen to install the kdenetwork package; so, in general, there is no need for a user to compile the sources of &knode;.</para> &install.compile.documentation; </sect1> <sect1 id="update-installation"> <title>Notes about updating an older version of &knode;</title> <para>This section contains notes about what to take care of when installing a newer version of &knode; with an older version already installed.</para> <sect2 id="update-file-changes"> <title>Changes in configuration files and folders</title> <para>Since version 0.2 the format of the configuration files and the saved articles has changed, so unfortunately, your old configuration files cannot be imported.</para> <para>If you update from a version >= 0.4 the local folders will automatically be converted into the new format; you will then be unable to use the data with an older version of &knode; any more.</para> </sect2> </sect1> </appendix>