The K Desktop Environment

Chapter 3. Installation

3.1. System Requirements

In order to install and use KSpread you must have:

If you plan on compiling KOffice from source code you will also need:

Once your system meets these requirements, you than need to decide whether you want to install from the source code, or premade compiled packages.

If you want to obtain the most current binary version of KOffice, you can find more information at Getting Binary Packages.

If pre-compiled binaries are not available for your system, you can download the source code and compile it yourself. Instructions on where to obtain the current source code and what to do with the source code once you have it, can be found under Getting the source code.