KAlarm Installation

Requirements
Quick Guide
Setting up on non-KDE desktops
GNOME 2
Other Window Managers
Accessing language translations
Basic Installation
Detailed Options
Compilers and Options
Compiling For Multiple Architectures
Installation Names
Optional Features
Specifying the System Type
Sharing Defaults
Operation Controls

• Qt development package
• kdelibs development package
• fam-devel package (only needed on some systems, e.g. RedHat 7.2. Install if you get a build error about libfam.la missing.)

• kmix (from kdemultimedia package, KDE 3.1 and later): if installed, it allows KAlarm to set the absolute sound volume when playing audio files.
• kttsd (from kdeaccessibility package): if installed and configured (together with a compatible speech synthesiser package), it allows KAlarm to speak alarm messages when alarms are displayed.

cd kalarm-1.4.14
./configure
make
[ Log in as root ]
cd /path/kalarm-1.4.14
make install

Options for ./configure which may be of particular use are:

--enable-doc-language=languages

A special KAlarm option to allow you to select which languages documentation is to be installed for by specifying a language code, or a list of language codes, as a parameter. By default, documentation in all available languages is installed. A list of documentation languages included in this package, together with their codes, is in the DOC-LANGUAGES file.
N.B. This has no effect on which user interface translations are installed.

Example: to install only British English documentation:

./configure --enable-doc-language=en_GB

Example: to install only French, Spanish and Swedish documentation:

./configure --enable-doc-language="fr es sv"

--prefix=kdedir

If you have more than one version of KDE installed, or sometimes if KDE is not in /opt/kde, you may need this to specify where to install the application.

Example: to install into /opt/kde2:

./configure --prefix=/opt/kde2

WARNING: If you install into a different directory than the KDE installation, you must prefix your installation directory path to the run-time environment variable KDEDIRS, and restart KDE. Otherwise KAlarm will not run correctly. If you don't understand what this means, you should install into the standard KDE directory.

--disable-debug

To prevent any debug messages being output to the console which you run KAlarm from.

Although KAlarm is a KDE application and requires the KDE libraries to be installed on your system, you can still use it while running other desktops or window managers.

In order to have alarms monitored and displayed automatically from one login session to the next, the alarm daemon (which monitors the alarm list and tells KAlarm to display each alarm when it becomes due) must be run automatically when you graphically log in or otherwise start X. If you are running the KDE desktop, the KAlarm installation process sets this up for you.

GNOME 2

Depending on KAlarm's run mode (configurable in the Preferences dialog), you may also need to run KAlarm at session start. If so, use the Startup Programs tab to add kalarm --tray as an additional Startup Command.

Other Window Managers

If you want to use KAlarm with a non-KDE window manager, you have two alternatives:

1. If your desktop environment/window manager performs session restoration, ensure that the alarm daemon (kalarmd) is included in the session restoration, and that after login or restarting X the alarm daemon is running with a -session command line option, e.g.

   kalarmd -session 117f000002000100176495700000008340018

   You can use the ps command to check this.

2. If you cannot use session restoration to start the alarm daemon correctly, you must configure the following command to be run whenever you graphically log in or start X:

   kalarmd --autostart

   If your desktop environment or window manager has a facility to configure programs to be run at login, you can use that facility. Otherwise, you need to add the command to an appropriate script which is run after X is started.

   If you can specify an order to start the applications, start kalarm first, then kalarmd.

The configure shell script attempts to guess correct values for various system-dependent variables used during compilation. It uses those values to create a Makefile in each directory of the package. It may also create one or more .h files containing system-dependent definitions. Finally, it creates a shell script config.status that you can run in the future to recreate the current configuration, a file config.cache that saves the results of its tests to speed up reconfiguring, and a file config.log containing compiler output (useful mainly for debugging configure).

If you need to do unusual things to compile the package, please try to figure out how configure could check whether to do them, and mail diffs or instructions to the address given in the README so they can be considered for the next release. If at some point config.cache contains results you don't want to keep, you may remove or edit it.

The file configure.in is used to create configure by a program called autoconf. You only need configure.in if you want to change it or regenerate configure using a newer version of autoconf.

The simplest way to compile this package is:

1. cd to the directory containing the package's source code and type ./configure to configure the package for your system. If you're using csh on an old version of System V, you might need to type sh ./configure instead to prevent csh from trying to execute configure itself. Running configure takes a while. While running, it prints some messages telling which features it is checking for.
2. Type make to compile the package.
3. Type make install to install the programs and any data files and documentation.
4. You can remove the program binaries and object files from the source code directory by typing make clean.

Some systems require unusual options for compilation or linking that the configure script does not know about. You can give configure initial values for variables by setting them in the environment. Using a Bourne-compatible shell, you can do that on the command line like this:

CC=c89 CFLAGS=-O2 LIBS=-lposix ./configure

Or on systems that have the `env' program, you can do it like this:

env CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include LDFLAGS=-s ./configure

You can compile the package for more than one kind of computer at the same time, by placing the object files for each architecture in their own directory. To do this, you must use a version of make that supports the VPATH variable, such as GNU make. cd to the directory where you want the object files and executables to go and run the configure script. configure automatically checks for the source code in the directory that configure is in and in `..'.

If you have to use a make that does not supports the VPATH variable, you have to compile the package for one architecture at a time in the source code directory. After you have installed the package for one architecture, use make distclean before reconfiguring for another architecture.

Installation Names

By default, make install will install the package's files in `/usr/local/bin', `/usr/local/man', etc. You can specify an installation prefix other than `/usr/local' by giving configure the option --prefix=path.

You can specify separate installation prefixes for architecture-specific files and architecture-independent files. If you give configure the option --exec-prefix=path, the package will use path as the prefix for installing programs and libraries. Documentation and other data files will still use the regular prefix.

If the package supports it, you can cause programs to be installed with an extra prefix or suffix on their names by giving configure the option --program-prefix=prefix or --program-suffix=suffix.

Optional Features

Some packages pay attention to --enable-feature options to configure, where feature indicates an optional part of the package. They may also pay attention to --with-package options, where package is something like `gnu-as' or `x' (for the X Window System). Specific --enable- and --with- options that the package recognises are described above in Quick Guide.

For packages that use the X Window System, configure can usually find the X include and library files automatically, but if it doesn't, you can use the configure options --x-includes=dir and --x-libraries=dir to specify their locations.

Specifying the System Type

There may be some features configure can not figure out automatically, but needs to determine by the type of host the package will run on. Usually configure can figure that out, but if it prints a message saying it can not guess the host type, give it the --host=type option. type can either be a short name for the system type, such as `sun4', or a canonical name with three fields: CPU-COMPANY-SYSTEM

See the file config.sub for the possible values of each field. If config.sub isn't included in this package, then this package doesn't need to know the host type.

If you are building compiler tools for cross-compiling, you can also use the --target=type option to select the type of system they will produce code for and the --build=type option to select the type of system on which you are compiling the package.

Sharing Defaults

If you want to set default values for configure scripts to share, you can create a site shell script called config.site that gives default values for variables like CC, cache_file, and prefix. configure looks for PREFIX/share/config.site if it exists, then PREFIX/etc/config.site if it exists. Or, you can set the CONFIG_SITE environment variable to the location of the site script. A warning: not all configure scripts look for a site script.

Operation Controls

--cache-file=file

Use and save the results of the tests in file instead of ./config.cache. Set file to `/dev/null' to disable caching, for debugging configure.

--help

Print a summary of the options to configure, and exit.

--quiet
--silent
-q

Do not print messages saying which checks are being made.

--srcdir=dir

Look for the package's source code in directory dir. Usually configure can determine that directory automatically.

--version

Print the version of Autoconf used to generate the configure script, and exit.