<para>If you want to successfully install &knode;, you need &kde; 3.x; if, in addition, you want to use &knode; as an offline newsreader, you need a local news server, ⪚ <ulink url="http://www.leafnode.org"><application>leafnode</application></ulink>.</para>
<para>&knode; is part of the tdenetwork package of &kde; 3.x and is installed together with it, provided you have chosen to install the tdenetwork package; so, in general, there is no need for a user to compile the sources of &knode;.</para>
<para>This section contains notes about what to take care of when installing a newer version of &knode; with an older version already installed.</para>
<para>Since version 0.2 the format of the configuration files and the saved articles has changed, so unfortunately, your old configuration files cannot be imported.</para>
<para>If you update from a version >= 0.4 the local folders will automatically be converted into the new format; you will then be unable to use the data with an older version of &knode; any more.</para>