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<H3><A NAME="s7">7. Installation</A></H3>

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<H3><A NAME="ss7.1">7.1 How to obtain KMid</A>
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<P>KMid is a core application of the KDE project 
<A HREF="http://www.kde.org">http://www.kde.org</A>.
KMid can be found on the KDEmultimedia package, which is at 
<A HREF="ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/">ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/</A>, the main ftp site of the KDE project. You can also download it from any of the many ftp mirrors whose list is at 
<A HREF="http://www.kde.org/mirrors.html">http://www.kde.org/mirrors.html</A>.
<P>Additionally, KMid can be found on its homepage, which is at 
<A HREF="http://www.arrakis.es/~rlarrosa/kmid.html">http://www.arrakis.es/~rlarrosa/kmid.html</A>. In the homepage, you can follow its development, see some information about it, some screenshots, a list of sites from where you can download more karaoke songs, etc.
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<H3><A NAME="ss7.2">7.2 Requirements</A>
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<P>KMid requires to work:
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<LI>KDE <BR>
Well, you probably already have this :-)
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<LI>A sound card <BR>
A good soundcard and/or external synthesizer are recommended, as the sound quality depends greatly in your soundcard, it's not the same to play the music using an FM device, than using an AWE card .
<P>If you don't have a soundcard, you can still compile KMid with <CODE>MODE_DEMO_ONLYVISUAL</CODE> defined and it will run as if you had one (but you'll get no music, of course :-( ). 
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<H3><A NAME="ss7.3">7.3 Compilation and installation</A>
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<P>If you downloaded the KDEmultimedia package, or just the KMid package, to compile KMid you must run <CODE>configure</CODE>, then <CODE>make</CODE> and then, to install it, <CODE>make install</CODE> (most probably, as root).
<P>I've included some examples that are installed in <CODE>$dollar;KDEDIR/share/apps/kmid</CODE>
<P>If you run into any problem, don't hesitate to contact any of the KDE mailing list, or send a report directly to me.
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