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2. Installation

2.1 How to obtain KMail

KMail is a base application of the KDE project http://www.kde.org. KMail can be found on ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/, the main ftp site of the KDE project, in the kdebase distribution.

2.2 Requirements

In order to successfully compile KMail, you need the latest versions of kdesupport and kdelibs. You will also need automake and autoconf. All required libraries & apps can be found on ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/.

2.3 Compilation and installation

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

% make -f Makefile.cvs
% ./configure
% make
% make install

Since KMail uses autoconf you should have not trouble compiling it. Should you run into problems please report them to the KDE mailing lists.


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