Installation

Where do I get ?
is part of KDE Project. You will find the current version of in the package kdenetwork at ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/, the ftp-Server of the KDE Project or at the Homepage of .

Requirements
If you want to successfully install , you need a KDE 2.x.
If, in addition, you want to use as an offline newsreader, you need a local news server, e.g. leafnode.
If you want to compile and install , you must make sure that the following programs are present:
g++2.8/egcs 1.0.3 (or compatible)
GNU make
autoconf 2.1
automake 1.4
QT 2.2
KDE 2.x

Compile and install
is part of the package kdenetwork of KDE 2.x and is installed together with it. so in general, there is no need for a user to compile the sources of . If you nonetheless intend to or if you only have the sources available, compilation and installation is done, as is custom on Linux, by typing:

% ./configure
% make
% su
% make install

uses autoconf and automake, so there should be no problems during compilation. But if so, please contact the already mentioned mailing list or the KDE newsgroups.

Configuration
If you use together with with a local news server, you must make sure that this server is correctly set up and started. For further details, please consult the documentation of your local news server.
The availability of the local news server can easily be verified with the program telnet. Open a console and type:

% telnet localhost nntp

Followed by that, the news server should respond with:

%

Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
200 Leafnode NNTP Daemon, version 1.9.16 running at konqi.org

You quit the telnet session with:

% quit

If that should not work, there is either no local news server set up or the server was not started. In this case, please consult the documentation of your local news server.
Further, you need of course a (dial-in) connection to a news server on the Internet. From there, or the local news server retrieves the articles. Your Internet provider should be able to give you information about which news servers you can use. You need this information in any case.
You will learn more about setting up in the chapter Working with