The K Desktop Environment

Chapter 2. Installation

2.1. How to obtain and install KSnapshot

KSnapshot is part of the KDE project http://www.kde.org.

KSnapshot can be found in the kdegraphics package on ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/, the main ftp site of the KDE project.

2.1.1. Requirements

A successful installation of KDE 2.0 is required to use KSnapshot.

All required libraries as well as KSnapshot itself can be found on The KDE FTP site or one of it's mirrors.

2.1.2. Compilation and installation

KSnapshot may be installed from the kdegraphics package either by installing a binary RPM or by compiling the source package.

2.1.2.1. Installing from RPMs

To install the kdegrahics package from a binary RPM you must be logged in as root. Assuming that the name of the RPM is filename.rpm, do the following at the command prompt:

 % rpm -ivh filename.rpm

Should you run into problems please report them to the KDE mailing lists.

2.1.2.2. Installing from source

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

 % ./configure
 % make
 % make install

Since KSnapshot uses autoconf and automake you should have not trouble compiling it.

Should you run into problems please report them to the KDE mailing lists.