The KMid Handbook: Installation
Description: KMid midi/karaoke multimedia player
Keywords: KMid midi karaoke multimedia mid kar player music sound fm awe gus

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### 7. Installation

### 7.1 How to obtain KMid

KMid is a core application of the KDE project http://www.kde.org. KMid can be found on the KDEmultimedia package, which is at ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/, the main ftp site of the KDE project. You can also download it from any of the many ftp mirrors whose list is at http://www.kde.org/mirrors.html.

Additionally, KMid can be found on its homepage, which is at http://www.arrakis.es/~rlarrosa/kmid.html. In the homepage, you can follow its development, see some information about it, some screenshots, a list of sites from where you can download more karaoke songs, etc.

### 7.2 Requirements

KMid requires to work:

- KDE
  Well, you probably already have this :-)

- A sound card
  A good soundcard and/or external synthesizer are recommended, as the sound quality depends greatly in your soundcard, it's not the same to play the music using an FM device, than using an AWE card .

  If you don't have a soundcard, you can still compile KMid with `MODE_DEMO_ONLYVISUAL` defined and it will run as if you had one (but you'll get no music, of course :-( ).

### 7.3 Compilation and installation

If you downloaded the KDEmultimedia package, or just the KMid package, to compile KMid you must run `configure`, then `make` and then, to install it, `make install` (most probably, as root).

I've included some examples that are installed in `$dollar;KDEDIR/share/apps/kmid`

If you run into any problem, don't hesitate to contact any of the KDE mailing list, or send a report directly to me.

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