Building and Installing kdm
is part of the KDE project. The various component parts of the KDE project are broken into sections, called packages. is part of the package called kdebase. You can get KDE source code from various Linux and BSD distribution CDs, or by download from www.kde.org or its mirrors. If you have an out-of-date source code tree, you can use one of the KDE cvsup servers to bring it up-to-date whilst using minimal network bandwidth.
Before building kdebase, you must have built and installed (in this order) version 2 of the qt library and the KDE packages kde-qt-addon, kdesupport and kdelibs.
In order to build any of the above, you must already have the X Window System installed, together with a C++ compiler and the GNU configuration tools configure, automake and autoconf.
If the last few paragraphs seemed like a foreign language, then either you have strayed into an Inappropriate Area of this handbook, or you are about to undergo a Great Learning Experience.
If you managed to satisfy all of the prerequisites, you are unlikely to have any problems with building and installing kdebase. is installed in your "$KDEDIR/bin" directory.
make install will overwrite your previous kdmrc.