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3. Installation

3.1 How to obtain ktalkd

ktalkd is now a core application of the KDE project http://www.kde.org, part of the kdenetwork package.

But you can always download the latest ktalkd from the main ftp site of the KDE project, ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde and from its mirrors. It's usually found in ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/latest/apps/network

3.2 Requirements

In order to successfully compile ktalkd, you need the latest versions of the KDE libraries as well as the Qt C++ library. All required libraries as well as ktalkd itself can be found on ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/.

3.3 Compilation and installation

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

% ./configure
% make
% make install

As ktalkd is a daemon, make install will require root privileges.

Don't forget to update /etc/inetd.conf. For example, on a linux system, if kde is in /opt/kde, change the lines concerning talk and ntalk to :

talk   dgram   udp     wait    root    /usr/sbin/tcpd  /opt/kde/bin/kotalkd
ntalk  dgram   udp     wait    root    /usr/sbin/tcpd  /opt/kde/bin/ktalkd
A script is provided, to make the necessary change automatically. Update your inetd.conf file just by running
% ./post-install.sh
Anyway, you'll have to restart inetd after this. On most Linux systems, do :
% killall -HUP inetd

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

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