If KAlarm is not installed and if you are the administrator of your system, your best bet is to use a precompiled binary file.
If your system understands the RPM binary package format, you should get a file "kdepim2.i386.rpm" or "kalarm.i386.rpm" (or similar), depending on whether you want to install kdepim or just KAlarm. The command to install is: rpm -i package.i386.rpm, and the command to upgrade is: rpm -U package.i386.rpm
If your system uses a different binary package format, you need to read the instructions that came with your system.
If you cannot obtain a suitable precompiled binary package, you will need to compile KAlarm yourself from source files. Find the source package file "kdepim2.tar.gz" or "kalarm.tar.gz" (or similar), depending on whether you want to install kdepim or just KAlarm. Unpack it in a new directory, change to that directory and enter the following:
% ./configure % make % make install
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If you have both KDE1 and KDE2 installed, this may possibly install KAlarm into the KDE1 directory. If necessary, you can give the KDE2 directory as a parameter to ./configure . For example: ./configure --prefix=/opt/kde2 |
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If you install KAlarm as a standalone package along with kdepim 2.2/2.2.1, you must install kdepim first and KAlarm last to ensure that the correct library versions are installed. |
Since KAlarm uses autoconf and automake you should have no trouble compiling it. Should you run into problems please report them to the KDE mailing lists.