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<H3><A NAME="s2">2. Installation</A></H3>

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<H3><A NAME="ss2.1">2.1 How to obtain KTop</A>
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<P>KTop is part of the 
<A HREF="http://www.kde.org">KDE Project</A>.  KTop can be found on the 
<A HREF="http://www.iss.rwth-aachen.de/~schlaege/ktop">KTop Homepage</A> or 
<A HREF="ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/">KDE FTP Server</A>, the main ftp site of the KDE Project.
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<H3><A NAME="ss2.2">2.2 Requirements</A>
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<P>In order to successfully compile KTop, you need the KDE 1.x and Qt 1.42.
All required libraries as well as KTop itself can be found
on the 
<A HREF="ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/">KDE FTP Server</A>. 
<P>At the moment the following flavors of UNIX are supported:
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<LI> Linux 2.x <P> For KTop to work it is necessary to compile the
Linux-Kernel with the /proc-File-system enabled. This is the default
setting and most Linux-Distribution have it already. For SMP support
Linux 2.2 is required.
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<LI> FreeBSD <P> 
<P>The KTop program needs to be owned by the kmem group and needs to have
the setgid bit set.
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<P>Support for other platforms is in preparation. Your help is greatly
appreciated.
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<H3><A NAME="ss2.3">2.3 Compilation and installation</A>
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<P>In order to compile and install KTop on your system, type the following in the base 
directory of the KTop distribution:
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% ./configure
% make
% make install
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<P>Should you run into problems please report them to the <SF>KDE</SF> mailing lists.
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<H3><A NAME="ss2.4">2.4 Installing the Task Manager Icon/Performance Meter in the KDE panel </A>
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<P>It is possible to add the Task Manager to the panel. Simply use the
Start Menu/Panel/Add Application Menu to do so. If you have the xload
program installed you will see a performance history display instead
of the KTop icon. Clicking on the icon or performance meter will start
the Task Manager.
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<H3><A NAME="ss2.5">2.5 Reporting Bugs </A>
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<P>No software is perfect and so KTop isn't. Although I made a lot of
efforts to ensure the usability you might encounter a situation where
KTop does not behave as you would expect. Please report all bugs to
the highly sophisticated 
<A HREF="http://bugs.kde.org">KDE Bug Tracking System</A>. Do not report bugs directly to me. Reporting to
the Bug Track System will ensure that all developers have a chance to
read about it and fix it.
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