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3. Installation

3.1 How to obtain ktalk

ktalk is part of the KDE project and available at http://www.student.uni-kl.de/~blehner.

3.2 Requirements

In order to successfully compile ktalk, you need the latest versions of the KDE libraries libkdecore and libkdeui, as well as the Qt-library libqt. All required libraries as well as ktalk itself can be found on ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/.

3.3 Compilation and installation

In order to compile and install ktalk on your system, type the following in the base directory of the ktalk distribution:
% ./configure
% make
% make install

Please inform me of any modification you had to undertake in order to get ktalk to compile on your platform.

3.4 Starting ktalk

If you installed KDE correct, ktalk will be in your executable search path after installation. You can start it now easily by typing "ktalk" on the command line. The following parameters can be used:
ktalk [--autoexit] [user[@host][#tty]] ...
If you use the optional parameter "--autoexit", ktalk will exit automatically after closing the last talk connection.
You can append several people you want to talk to. The address of a person has the form user@host#tty. user is the login name of the person, host is the IP address of the host the person is on (or your own host if you leave it out). Furthermore you can specify a terminal with tty, on which the announcement is printed. In most cases you can leave this out.

Example:

ktalk heister Danny@rappl.aol.com
ktalk is startet, and a talk connection to the user with login name "heister" on your local host and to the user "Danny" on host "rappl.aol.com" is established.

More command line options are:

ktalk --help
ktalk --version

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