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2. Installation

2.1 How to obtain KVoice

KVoice is an application of the KDE project http://www.kde.org. KVoice can be found on ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/, the main ftp site of the KDE project.

2.2 Requirements

In order to successfully compile KVoice, you need at least the Beta 4 versions of kdelibs. All required libraries as well as KVoice itself can be found on ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/.

2.3 Compilation and installation

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

 
% ./configure 
% make 
% make install 
On many computers, normal users don not have access to the modem device and the directories where incoming faxes and voice mails are stored. If this is the case for you, you will either

The second method is usually preferable, and can be achieved typing the following command in the base directory of the KVoice distribution (after having compiled and installed kvoice with the commands given above).

% make suid-install

Since KVoice uses autoconf you should have no trouble compiling and installing it. Should you run into problems please report them to me.

2.4 Configuration

KVoice will try to configure itself and mgetty as far as possible without user interaction (please note: if Kvoice is run suid, you will have to configure kvoice as root.) There are however some things, which KVoice can not determine by itself. So please check, in the menu options/setup if everything is setup correctly.

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