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<H3><A NAME="s5">5. Installation</A></H3>

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<P>Normally you don't need to care about the installation of KMix.
KMix is shipped with nearly all Linux distributions. On other
platforms you need to download KMix
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<H3><A NAME="ss5.1">5.1 How to obtain KMix</A>
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<P>KMix is a core application of the KDE project 
<A HREF="http://www.kde.org">http://www.kde.org</A>.
KMix can be found on 
<A HREF="ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/">ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/</A>, the main ftp
site of the KDE project.
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<H3><A NAME="ss5.2">5.2 Requirements</A>
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<P>In order to successfully compile KMix, you need an installed KDE1.0 or
KDE1.1. These releases can be found
on 
<A HREF="ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/">ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/</A>.
Look for a stable KDE release, KMix is contained
in the kdemultimedia package. Mirrors can be found under
<A HREF="http://www.kde.org/mirrors.html">http://www.kde.org/mirrors.html</A>.
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<H3><A NAME="ss5.3">5.3 Compilation and installation</A>
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<P>In order to compile and install KMix on your system, type the following in
the base
directory of the KMix distribution:
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% ./configure
% make
% make install
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<P>Since KMix uses <CODE>autoconf</CODE> you should have not trouble compiling it.
Should you run into problems please report them to the <SF>KDE</SF> mailing
lists.
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