Installation

How to obtain
For information on how to obtain and compile it see http://www.kde.org/install-source.html
There is more information on compilation at http://www.kde.org/compilationfaq.html
There is a web page at http://www.general.uwa.edu.au/u/toivo/kpackage

Requirements
For installing you need:
2.x and 2.2
For listing Debian packages no other software is needed but to install and uninstall the packages you need:
the dpkg package manager or
apt-get and apt-cache
For BSD packages you need the package management programs:
pkg_info
pkg_add
pkg_delete
For Slackware packages you need:
installpkg
removepkg
For dealing with Redhat packages you need:
RPM and RPM-DEVEL: 3.0 or 4.0
the same libraries as compiling RPM does. These are:
libdb - the Berkeley database library
libz and libz-dev - compression library
RPM requires the gettext routine which is found in libc6 or in libintl
RPM 3.0 may require the popt package
For to work correctly with RPM packages the RPM database must be initialized. If typing rpm -qa gives an error about unable to open.... then try rpm --rebuilddb.