Dear User/Packager, this Readme is targeted towards people who want to build Kile from source or plan to create binary packages. If you have created a package, please drop us a note ( kile-devel@lists.sourceforge.net ) so that we can promote your package. All specified versions are minimum versions except for KDE and QT. 1.) Checking dependencies - tdelibs 3.2 - 3.5 and according QT development packages - autoconf 2.53, automake and make (alternatively cmake 2.4.4, see also Building-with-cmake.txt) - gcc 3.x/4.x 2.) Building Kile from source - Extract the source code with `tar xjf kile-2.0.x.tar.bz2` - `cd kile-2.0.x` - ./configure --prefix=path_to_KDE3 (/usr or /opt/trinity generally) --with-qt-dir=path_to_QT3 library (/usr/lib/qt3 generally) -- If you don't know what the path to KDE3 on your system is, you can use output of `kde-config --prefix`. -- Or you can choose `--prefix=$HOME/.kde` to not mess up with your distribution's package management system. - Type `make` to compile the package. - Type `make install` to install the programs, data files and documentation. - Type `kile` and enjoy the power of LaTeX together with the joy of using Kile :) 3.) Using Kile To use Kile you (obviously) need some external programs. The following list is divided into basic, advanced and additional usage. Basic: - TeTeX 2.0/3.0 or TeXLive 2005/2007 (Including "AMS"-Packages and the documentation) - KDVI Advanced: - KPDF, KGhostView (Viewing PS and PDF) - Acroread (Viewing PDF) - Imagemagick, DVIPNG 1.7 (Bottom bar preview) By default there are also tools for the following programs defined: - Tar/zip/gzip/bzip2 (Archive) - DBlatex (Docbook to LaTeX) - Metapost and Asymptote - Latex2html (LaTeX to Web) - Tex4ht (LaTeX to Web) - Lilypond (Music Typesetting) - Konqueror/Mozilla/Firefox (Viewing HTML) - Kbibtex, KBib, JabRef, pybliographer, gbib (View Bibtex files) If you have any questions or corrections, please don't hesitate to contact us via kile-devel@lists.sourceforge.net. The Kile dev team