The KMix Handbook: Installation
Description: KDE's soundcard mixer
Keywords: KDE sound mixer multimedia

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### 5. Installation

Normally you don't need to care about the installation of KMix. KMix is shipped with nearly all Linux distributions. On other platforms you need to download KMix

### 5.1 How to obtain KMix

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

### 5.2 Requirements

In order to successfully compile KMix, you need an installed KDE1.0 or KDE1.1. These releases can be found on ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/. Look for a stable KDE release, KMix is contained in the kdemultimedia package. Mirrors can be found under http://www.kde.org/mirrors.html.

### 5.3 Compilation and installation

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

> `

>     % ./configure
>     % make
>     % make install

> `

Since KMix uses `autoconf` you should have not trouble compiling it. Should you run into problems please report them to the KDE mailing lists.

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