Basic Installation (from the console): - Step 1 $ ./configure --prefix=PREFIX - Step 2 $ make - Step 3 (as root) # make install where PREFIX is the path to your kde installation eg: /usr, /opt/kde Most of the time you can just omit the --prefix command. If configure fails, check that you have both the QT and KDE development headers installed. Debian note: You may need to append --with-qt-includes=/usr/include/qt3 to the configure line. UGLY TRICK: If it wont configure or make, try make -f Makefile.dist, then configure, make, it might work.