Installation

How to obtain
is available for 2 and as a standalone package for 3 from http://www.astrojar.org.uk/linux

Requirements
requires the libraries libkcal, libical and libicalss from the package kdepim.
If you install a version of kdepim which includes , 's requirements are automatically met.
For the standalone version of , you need to run 2.0 or later. comes in different standalone versions which include the appropriate sets of kdepim libraries depending on which version, if any, of kdepim you have installed. The standalone versions of 0.5 contain copies of the libraries from kdepim 2.2.2 (including a slightly updated libkcal).
uses about 12 Mb and the alarm daemon uses about 2.5 Mb of memory to run, but this may vary depending on your platform and configuration.
You can find a list of changes in the ChangeLog file, or at http://www.astrojar.org.uk/linux/kalarm.html.

Compilation and installation
If you cannot obtain a suitable precompiled binary package, you need to compile yourself from source files. Get the source package file kdepim-x.x.tar.gz or kalarm-x.x.tar.gz (or similar), depending on whether you want to install kdepim or just . Unpack it in a new directory using a command similar to tar xvfz package.tar.gz, and change to the directory which has been created.
If you have more than one version of installed (e.g. 1 and 2), this may possibly install into the wrong directory. If necessary, you can give the directory as a parameter to ./configure . For example, if your is installed in /opt/kde2:
./configure --prefix=/opt/kde2
If you install as a standalone package along with kdepim 2.2.x, you must install kdepim first and last to ensure that the correct library versions are installed.

Configuration
No special configuration is required to set up to run on the desktop. Once you have run for the first time, the alarm daemon will start every time you log in, in order to monitor scheduled alarms.
To run on a non- desktop, the main requirement is to ensure that the alarm daemon is run automatically whenever you log in. More detailed instructions are contained in the INSTALL file which is distributed with .