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3. Installation

3.1 How to obtain kvideodb

kvideodb is part of the KDE project. You can find the newest version on ftp://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/informatik/kde/, the homepage of kvideodb.

3.2 System Requirements

In order to compile kvideodb succesfully, you need the latest versions of the KDE libraries libkdecore, libkkfm, libkfile and libkdeui, as well as the Qt-library libqt. All required libraries as well as kvideodb itself can be found on ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/.

3.3 Compilation and Installation

In order to compile and install kvideodb on your system, type the following in the base directory of the kvideodb distribution:

% ./configure
% make
% make install
At least for the last step, you will probably need superuser permissions on the machine.

Please inform me of any modification you had to undertake in order to get kvideodb to compile on your platform.

3.4 Starting kvideodb

If you installed KDE correctly, kvideodb will be in your executable search path after installation. You can start it now easily by typing "kvideodb" on the command line. The following parameters can be used:

kvideodb [filename] [-c] [-d] [-p] [-s] [--help] [--version]

In the following table their effects are presented:


-c
the cassette-window won´t be displayed.
-dask before deleting a movie.
-pdefault Properties won´t be displayed.
-scassette-window will be swallowed. (not implemented yet)

More command line options are:

kvideodb --help
kvideodb --version

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