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2. Installation

2.1 How to obtain KHexEdit

Latest version of KHexEdit can always be downloaded from its home page http://home.sol.no/~espensa/khexedit or from the KDE main FTP server at ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde or one of its mirrors. Until KDE 2.0 is ready this package will be compatible with KDE-1.1.x as well as the a KDE 2.0 based version.

KHexEdit is also a part of the KDE projects cvs distribution. This version is based on the Troll Tech's Qt-2.0 widget set.

2.2 Requirements

The current version has been developed using Qt-1.44 and KDE 1.1.1. There should neither be a problem using it with Qt-1.42 and KDE 1.1 nor any other KDE 1.1.x version.

All required KDE libraries as well as KHexEdit itself can be found on ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde

2.3 Compilation and Installation

Compiling KHexEdit is very easy. The following should do it:


% ./configure
% make
% make install

If you run into problems please report them to the the author Espen Sand or to the KDE mailing lists (Take a look at http://lists.kde.org/. Your question might already be answered).

Normally you must be root (have administrator privileges) to successfully do the "make install" step.

Note that you can specify a number of options to "configure". A common option is "--prefix". Using this option you can specify where your KDE base directory is. Common arguments to this option is "/opt/kde" or "/usr/local/kde". "configure --help" lists all available options.

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