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<bookinfo>
<title>The &kpackage; Handbook</title>
<authorgroup>
<author>
<firstname>Toivo</firstname>
<surname>Pedaste</surname>
<affiliation>
<address><email>toivo@ucs.uwa.edu.au</email></address>
</affiliation>
</author>
<othercredit role="reviewer">
<firstname>Lauri</firstname>
<surname>Watts</surname>
<affiliation>
<address><email>lauri@kde.org</email></address>
</affiliation>
<contrib>Reviewer</contrib>
</othercredit>
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</authorgroup>
<copyright>
<year>2000</year>
<holder>Toivo Pedaste</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>&FDLNotice;</legalnotice>
<date>2001-01-04</date>
<releaseinfo>2.01.00</releaseinfo>
<abstract><para>&kpackage; is a &GUI; interface to the
<acronym>RPM</acronym>, Debian, Slackware and BSD package
managers.</para></abstract>
<keywordset>
<keyword>kpackage</keyword>
<keyword>package</keyword>
<keyword>package manager</keyword>
<keyword>RPM</keyword>
<keyword>deb</keyword>
</keywordset>
</bookinfo>
<chapter id="introduction">
<title>Introduction</title>
<para>&kpackage; is a &GUI; interface to the <acronym>RPM</acronym>,
Debian, Slackware and BSD package managers. It is similar in some ways
to <application>GLINT</application>. &kpackage; is part of the K Desktop
Environment and, as a result, it is designed to integrate with the &kde;
file manager. </para>
</chapter>
<chapter id="onscreen-fundamentals">
<title>Onscreen Fundamentals</title>
<para>&kpackage; has two panels. The left panel displays a tree of the
installed and available packages, the right panel displays information
on the packages.</para>
<sect1 id="drag-and-drop">
<title>Drag and Drop</title>
<para>&kpackage; makes use of the &kde; Drag and Drop protocol. This
means that you can drag and drop packages onto &kpackage; to open
them. Dropping a file onto the <guilabel>Find File</guilabel> dialog
will find the package that contains the file.</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="the-package-tree-panel">
<title>The Package Tree Panel</title>
<para>When &kpackage; is started normally (that is it has not been
invoked via drag and drop and has not been given any parameters) it
displays two panels with the package tree on the left, this tree shows
installed packages and optionally new and updated packages as
well.</para>
<para>The tabs on the panel select whether to display
<guilabel>installed</guilabel> packages, <guilabel>updated</guilabel>
packages, <guilabel>available</guilabel> packages or all packages</para>
<para>The package tree shows the package name, package size, the version
and (in the case of an available package which would update an installed
package) the version of the already installed package.</para>
<para>Selecting a package from the tree displays information about it in
the right panel and allows:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Displaying the status information on the
package</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Seeing which files are included in an installed package,
selecting a file from the list will open it using the file
manager</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Verifying files in a package, files that exist are
marked with a tick, files that don't with a cross.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Uninstalling an installed package</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Installing an available package</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>A single package is selected by clicking on the name. Clicking on
the dot in the <guilabel>Mark</guilabel> column marks the package with a
tick, a second click unmarks it, while <keycombo
action="simul">&Shift;<mousebutton>left</mousebutton></keycombo> click
can be used to select a range of packages.</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="integrating-available-packages-in-the-tree">
<title>Integrating available packages in the tree</title>
<para>Access to available is setup via the <guimenu>Location</guimenu>
menu entries for each package type under the <guimenu>Settings</guimenu>
menu.</para>
<para>For <acronym>RPM</acronym> packages &kpackage; can read a
directory containing packages and add these to the package tree as
either new or updated packages. It is possible to examine or install
these packages from the package tree. By default the information about
the packages is extracted from the standard format of the file names and
so it is necessary to use the <guibutton>Examine</guibutton> button to
see the full description, it is possible though to set an option so that
for local directories each package file is read, this is slower but
gives a full description.</para>
<para>For Debian packages that are handled using <command>dpkg</command>
there are three ways of accessing available packages, these can be
selected in three different types of location setting panels. </para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Specify the location of the Debian package tree and select the
distribution and architecture, &kpackage; will look in the standard
places for the Package files describing the available packages, these
packages are then added to the package tree and can be examined or
installed</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Specify the location of the the Debian distribution along with the
Packages files for the parts of the distribution that are of
interest. If the <command>dselect</command> program is being
used then the file <filename>/var/lib/dpkg/available</filename> can be
used as a Packages file that describes the distribution that
<command>dselect</command> uses.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>Packages directories can be handled in the same way as with
<acronym>RPM</acronym> packages.</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>For Debian packages that are handled using APT the location of
uninstalled package repositories is set in the
<filename>/etc/apt/sources.list</filename> file, the
<guimenu>Location</guimenu> menu can still be used for directories
containing Debian packages. These packages are fetched and cached by
<application>apt</application> itself, not by &kpackage; </para>
<para>For Slackware packages there is very little information stored on
installed packages, but it is possible to use a
<filename>PACKAGE.TXT</filename> file as a source of information about
the installed packages. The <filename>PACKAGES.TXT</filename> file is
the equivalent of a Debian Packages file and Slackware distributions are
structured with a directory tree containing the <literal
role="extension">.tgz</literal> packages and a
<filename>PACKAGES.TXT</filename> file that describes the
packages.</para>
<para>As with Debian distributions the packages in a Slackware
distribution can be integrated into the package tree. Unfortunately the
Slackware packages don't carry version information so it is not possible
to tell with available packages are newer than installed ones.</para>
<para>For <acronym>BSD</acronym> packages &kpackage; will understand a
packages distribution directory that contains an
<filename>INDEX</filename> file (which describes all the packages) and
also contains an <filename>All</filename> directory (with all the
package files in it). </para>
<para>For remote directories and package files (&ie; those fetched via
&FTP;) &kpackage; will do caching, the packages are cached in
<filename>~/.kpackage</filename> and the directories in
<filename>~/.kpackage/dir</filename></para>
<note><para>For the handling of remote (&FTP;) directories to work it
may be necessary not have the <guilabel>FTP Proxy</guilabel> set in the
Browser Settings.</para></note>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="package-information-panel">
<title>Package Information Panel</title>
<para>The right panel has tabs for displaying two different types of
information about selected packages </para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>The <guilabel>Properties</guilabel> tab which displays
information on the selected package. In the dependency information there are
hyper-links to the packages listed, installed packages are in standard font,
uninstalled packages are in italic.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The <guilabel>File List</guilabel> tab shows the files in the
package and for installed packages shows the state of the
files.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="root-access">
<title>Root Access</title>
<para>&kpackage; requires <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
access for installing/uninstalling packages, this can be can be done by
running &kpackage; as <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>,
say by using &kdesu; .</para>
<para>Alternatively, if &kpackage; is running as a normal user it will
try to run the install/uninstall programs a root by logging in to a
psuedo terminal, it will use either <command>su</command> or
<command>ssh</command> to do this and if needed it will pop up a
terminal window where the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
password can be typed. For this to work the root prompt has to end in
<prompt>#</prompt>.</para>
<para>This doesn't work for <acronym>RPM</acronym> packages, because
they are handled internally by &kpackage; . </para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="installing-packages">
<title>Installing Packages</title>
<para>To install a package you can</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>locate the package you wish to install in &konqueror;, drag it
onto a running copy of &kpackage;</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>click on a package file in &konqueror; and start a new copy of
&kpackage;</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>use on the <guimenu>Open</guimenu> menu items in
&kpackage;</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>selecting an available package in the package tree</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>For a selected package, use the buttons in the right panel, the
<guibutton>Fetch</guibutton> button will fetch the package from a remote
source and display detailed information, the
<guibutton>Install</guibutton> button pops up the installation
window. </para>
<para>For marked packages, use the button in the left panel, the
<guibutton>Install Marked</guibutton> button pops up the install
window.</para>
<para>The install window lists the packages to be installed and allows
the setting of install options. The panel on the right is an integrated
terminal window in which the installation programs are run, for
interactive installation programs the interaction is done in this
window. </para>
<para><acronym>RPM</acronym> packages are handled slightly differently
from other package types, since the installation is done directly by
&kpackage;, the right panel is only used for error messages. </para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="uninstalling-packages">
<title>Uninstalling Packages</title>
<para>A selected package can be uninstalled by using the
<guibutton>Uninstall</guibutton> button in the right panel, this brings
up a window with the uninstall options, the
<guibutton>Uninstall</guibutton> button in the window causes the
packages to be uninstalled, and the right panel provides an integrated
terminal window for the uninstall programs.</para>
<para>Marked packages can be uninstalled using the <guibutton>Uninstall
Marked</guibutton> button in the left panel.</para>
</sect1>
</chapter>
<chapter id="menus">
<title>Menus</title>
<para>This describes the &kpackage; menus. </para>
<sect1 id="file-menu">
<title><guimenu>File</guimenu> menu</title>
<para>The items in the <guimenu>File</guimenu> menu are:</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice><shortcut><keycombo action="simul">
&Ctrl;<keycap>O</keycap></keycombo></shortcut>
<guimenu><accel>F</accel>ile</guimenu>
<guimenuitem><accel>O</accel>pen</guimenuitem></menuchoice></term>
<listitem><para>Brings up file selector for local and &FTP;
files</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice><guimenu><accel>F</accel>ile</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Open <accel>R</accel>ecent</guimenuitem></menuchoice></term>
<listitem><para>A list of the most recently open package files</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice><shortcut><keycombo action="simul">
&Ctrl;<keycap>F</keycap></keycombo></shortcut>
<guimenu><accel>F</accel>ile</guimenu><guimenuitem>Find
<accel>P</accel>ackage</guimenuitem></menuchoice></term>
<listitem><para>Search the installed package list for a package who's name
contains the entered string </para> </listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice><guimenu><accel>F</accel>ile</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Find <accel>F</accel>ile</guimenuitem></menuchoice></term>
<listitem><para>Produces a list of packages that contain the entered
file name, selecting a line will display the information on that
package. It behaves slightly differently for <acronym>RPM</acronym>
(where you have to enter the exact file name) and <abbrev>DEB</abbrev>
(where you can enter a regular expression).</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice><shortcut><keycap>F5</keycap></shortcut>
<guimenu><accel>F</accel>ile</guimenu>
<guimenuitem><accel>R</accel>eload</guimenuitem></menuchoice></term>
<listitem><para>Reread the package data and rebuild the package
tree</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice><shortcut><keycombo action="simul">
&Ctrl;<keycap>Q</keycap></keycombo></shortcut>
<guimenu><accel>F</accel>ile</guimenu>
<guimenuitem><accel>Q</accel>uit</guimenuitem></menuchoice></term>
<listitem><para>Quit &kpackage; </para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="packages-menu">
<title><guimenu>Packages</guimenu> menu</title>
<para>The items in the <guimenu>Packages</guimenu> menu are:</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice><guimenu><accel>P</accel>ackages</guimenu>
<guimenuitem><accel>B</accel>ack</guimenuitem></menuchoice></term>
<listitem><para>Back button for navigation using the links in
<guilabel>Properties</guilabel> entries in the right panel.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice><guimenu><accel>P</accel>ackages</guimenu>
<guimenuitem><accel>F</accel>orward</guimenuitem></menuchoice></term>
<listitem><para>Forward button for navigation using the links in
<guilabel>Properties</guilabel> entries in the right panel..</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice><guimenu><accel>P</accel>ackages</guimenu>
<guimenuitem><accel>E</accel>xpand Tree</guimenuitem></menuchoice></term>
<listitem><para>Fully expands the packages tree</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice><guimenu><accel>P</accel>ackages</guimenu>
<guimenuitem><accel>C</accel>ollapse Tree</guimenuitem> </menuchoice></term>
<listitem><para>Collapses the package tree so that only the tree structure is
shown</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice> <guimenu><accel>P</accel>ackages</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Clear <accel>M</accel>arked</guimenuitem> </menuchoice></term>
<listitem><para>Unmarks all packages</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="cache-menu">
<title><guimenu>Cache</guimenu> menu</title>
<para>The items in the <guimenu>Cache</guimenu> menu are: </para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice><guimenu><accel>C</accel>ache</guimenu> <guimenuitem>Clear
Package <accel>D</accel>irectory Cache</guimenuitem></menuchoice></term>
<listitem><para>Delete cached copies of remote package directories and Packages
files</para> </listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice>
<guimenu><accel>C</accel>ache</guimenu><guimenuitem>Clear <accel>P</accel>ackage
Cache</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice></term>
<listitem><para>Delete cached copies of remote package files that have been
fetched</para> </listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="special-menu">
<title><guimenu>Special</guimenu> menu</title>
<para>The <guimenu>Settings</guimenu> contains actions
related to specific package types:</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice>
<guimenu>Spe<accel>c</accel>ial</guimenu><guimenuitem>
<accel>D</accel>ebApt</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice></term>
<listitem>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Update</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>Update <command>apt</command> indexes from package
repositories.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Upgrade</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>Upgrade the Debian installation to the latest versions
of all the packages.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Fixup</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para><command>apt</command> is extremely strict about
dependencies, attempt to fixup dependency problems</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="settings-menu">
<title><guimenu>Settings</guimenu> menu</title>
<para>The items in the <guimenu>Settings</guimenu> menu are:</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice>
<guimenu><accel>S</accel>ettings</guimenu><guimenuitem>Show
<accel>T</accel>oolbar</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice></term>
<listitem><para>Toggle displaying the toolbar</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice>
<guimenu><accel>S</accel>ettings</guimenu><guimenuitem><accel>S</accel>ave
Settings</guimenuitem></menuchoice></term>
<listitem><para>Save options immediately</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice>
<guimenu><accel>S</accel>ettings</guimenu><guimenuitem>Configure
<accel>K</accel>ey Bindings</guimenuitem></menuchoice></term>
<listitem><para>The standard &kde; dialog for setting shortcut
keys</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice>
<guimenu><accel>S</accel>ettings</guimenu><guimenuitem>Configure
Tool<accel>b</accel>ars</guimenuitem></menuchoice></term>
<listitem><para>The standard &kde; dialog for configuring tool
bars</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice><guimenu><accel>S</accel>ettings</guimenu>
<guimenuitem><accel>O</accel>ptions</guimenuitem></menuchoice></term>
<listitem>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Types</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>Which package types to handle, Debian using DPKG and
Debian using APT are listed separately, it is not a good idea to
enable both at the same time.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Directory Cache</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>Whether to cache remote (&FTP;ed) directories and Package
files.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Package Cache</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>Whether to cache remote package files that have been fetched
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>misc</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Use SSH for privileged commands</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>Use <command>ssh</command> instead of
<command>su</command> for running privileged commands</para> </listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Verify file list</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>If set the list of files in the package is checked to see if
they are actually installed</para> </listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Read information from all local package files</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>If set all the files from a (local) package directory are read
instead of just using the files names, this is slower but shows more
information.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice>
<guimenu><accel>S</accel>ettings</guimenu> <guisubmenu>Location of available
packages</guisubmenu></menuchoice></term>
<listitem>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><guimenuitem>Location RPM</guimenuitem></term>
<listitem><para>This provides for specifying the location of package
directories (either local or &FTP;), each line includes an entry where
the &URL; or name of the directory can be typed in, a
<guibutton>...</guibutton> button that brings up a file selector and a
<guilabel>Use</guilabel> radio button that determines whether the
directory given in the line is to be used or not. The
<guilabel>SubDirs</guilabel> radio button indicates whether to recurse
down into sub-directories. The multiple panels are just for
convenience.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term> Location BSD</term>
<listitem><para>The first panel gives the location of the ports tree in
the file system </para>
<para>The other panel allows the specifying the location of packages
directories &ie; those containing <filename>INDEX</filename>
files</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Location DEB</term>
<listitem><para>There are three different types of panels.</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>The first three panels have an entry for the location of the
Debian distribution tree, a combo box for the distribution name and a combo box
for the architecture</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>The next two panels allow the specification of a Debian
distribution tree and the location of Packages files in that
distribution.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para> The last three panels specify directories the same way as for
RPMs.</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Location SLACK</term>
<listitem><para>For Slackware packages there are three types of panels</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>The first panel is the location of a
<filename>PACKAGES.TXT</filename> file which is used to provided information on
the installed packages</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>The next four panels can be used to specify the location of
distributions with the directory tree containing the <literal
role="extension">.tgz</literal> files and the location of the corresponding
<filename>PACKAGES.TXT</filename> file</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>The last two panels are for directories that do
<emphasis>not</emphasis> have a corresponding <filename>PACKAGES.TXT</filename>
file</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="help-menu">
<title><guimenu>Help</guimenu> menu</title>
<para>The items in the <guimenu>Help</guimenu> menu are: </para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice>
<shortcut><keycap>F1</keycap></shortcut>
<guimenu><accel>H</accel>elp</guimenu>
<guimenuitem><accel>C</accel>ontents</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice></term>
<listitem><para>Opens the Help file for &kpackage; (this document)</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice>
<shortcut><keycombo action="simul">&Shift;<keycap>F1</keycap>
</keycombo></shortcut>
<guimenu><accel>H</accel>elp</guimenu><guimenuitem>What's
<accel>T</accel>his...</guimenuitem></menuchoice></term>
<listitem><para>Turns the cursor into a question mark (?), enabling you to click
on an icon or other item in the &kpackage; window, and receive a short paragraph of
help about the selected item.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice>
<guimenu><accel>H</accel>elp</guimenu><guimenuitem><accel>R</accel>eport
Bug</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice></term>
<listitem><para>Opens a dialog box enabling you to report a bug, or enter an
item on the <quote>wish list</quote> for a feature you would like to see
in an upcoming version of &kpackage;</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice>
<guimenu><accel>H</accel>elp</guimenu><guimenuitem><accel>A</accel>bout
KPackage</guimenuitem></menuchoice></term>
<listitem><para>Shows version and credit information about
&kpackage;</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><menuchoice>
<guimenu><accel>H</accel>elp</guimenu> <guimenuitem>About
<accel>K</accel>DE</guimenuitem></menuchoice></term>
<listitem><para>Shows version and credit information about &kde;</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="toolbar">
<title>Toolbar</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para><guiicon>Open</guiicon></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><guiicon>Back</guiicon></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><guiicon>Forward</guiicon></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><guiicon>Expand Package Tree</guiicon></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><guiicon>Collapse Package Tree</guiicon></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><guiicon>Find Package</guiicon></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><guiicon>Find File</guiicon></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><guiicon>Reload</guiicon></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><guiicon>Quit</guiicon></para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect1>
</chapter>
<chapter id="credits-and-licenses">
<title>Credits and Licenses</title>
<para>
&kpackage;
</para>
<para>Program copyright 1999-2000 Damyan Pepper, Toivo Pedaste</para>
<para>Documentation copyright 2000 Toivo Pedaste
<email>toivo@ucs.uwa.edu.au</email></para>
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&underFDL;
&underGPL;
</chapter>
<appendix id="installation">
<title>Installation</title>
<sect1 id="how-to-obtain-kpackage">
<title>How to obtain &kpackage;</title>
<para>&kpackage; is now part of the &kde; <acronym>CVS</acronym> tree,
in the kdeadmin package.</para>
<para>For information on how to obtain and compile it see <ulink
url="http://www.kde.org/install-source.html">
http://www.kde.org/install-source.html</ulink></para>
<para>There is more information on compilation at <ulink
url="http://www.kde.org/compilationfaq.html">
http://www.kde.org/compilationfaq.html</ulink></para>
<para>There is a web page at <ulink
url="http://www.general.uwa.edu.au/u/toivo/kpackage">
http://www.general.uwa.edu.au/u/toivo/kpackage</ulink></para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="requirements">
<title>Requirements</title>
<para>For installing &kpackage; you need:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>&Qt; 2.x and &kde; 2.2 </para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>For listing Debian packages no other software is needed but to
install and unistall the packages you need:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>the <command>dpkg</command> package
manager or</para></listitem>
<listitem><para> <command>apt-get</command> and
<command>apt-cache</command></para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>For <acronym>BSD</acronym> packages you need the package
management programs: </para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para><command>pkg_info</command></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><command>pkg_add</command></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><command>pkg_delete</command></para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>For Slackware packages you need: </para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para><application>installpkg</application> </para></listitem>
<listitem><para><application>removepkg</application></para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>For dealing with Redhat packages you need:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para><acronym>RPM</acronym> and RPM-DEVEL: 3.0 or 4.0</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>the same libraries as compiling <acronym>RPM</acronym> does. These
are:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para><filename>libdb</filename> - the Berkeley database library
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><filename>libz</filename> and <filename>libz-dev</filename> -
compression library </para></listitem>
<listitem><para><acronym>RPM</acronym> requires the
<application>gettext</application> routine which is found in
<filename>libc6</filename> or in <filename>libintl</filename></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><acronym>RPM</acronym> 3.0 may require the <filename>popt</filename>
package</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>For &kpackage; to work correctly with <acronym>RPM</acronym>
packages the <acronym>RPM</acronym> database must be initialized. If
typing <userinput><command>rpm</command>
<option>-qa</option></userinput> gives an error about
<computeroutput>unable to open....</computeroutput> then try
<userinput><command>rpm</command>
<option>--rebuilddb</option></userinput>'.</para>
</sect1>
</appendix>
</book>
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