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2. Installation

2.1 How to obtain Knetstart

Knetstart is Open Source, and is distributable under the GPL public liscence. It is available from the S Linux Machines ftp servers at ftp://ftp.slinuxmachines.com/pub/Linux, and on the KDE ftp servers accessable from their main website: http://www.kde.org.

2.2 Requirements

Any RedHat compatible Linux system with an ethernet card.

2.3 Compilation and installation

In order to compile and install Knetstart on your system, type the following in the base directory of the Knetstart distribution:

% ./configure
% make
% make install

Since Knetstart uses

autoconf
you should have not trouble compiling it. Should you run into problems please report them to the the author at Federico David Sacerdoti


RPM packages for Knetstart are also available for Intel platforms at the S Linux Machines ftp site. To install an RPM package, type the following

% rpm -ivh knetstart-0.7-1.i386.rpm
RPM is the preffered method of installation because it keeps a record of all files belonging to a program. Uninstalls and upgrades are therefore made much easier.


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