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2. Installation

2.1 How to obtain Boson

Boson can be found on the boson homepage.

Boson is also available on ftp.kde.org and all its mirrors, in the Incomings/ directory or in unstable/game tree.

2.2 Requirements

In order to successfully compile and use boson, you need kde-qt-addon and kdelibs from KDE-2.0. Those libraries can be found on ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/. You also need Qt-2.1, that can be found either at the KDE site or on http://www.troll.no

2.3 Compilation and installation

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

% ./configure
% make
% make install

You will probably need to be root for the install stage.

You may need to add those arguments to ./configure if your qt2/kde2 are installed on non-standart places

Since Boson uses autoconf you should have not trouble compiling it. Should you run into problems please report them to the the author at Thomas Capricelli

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