The ark Handbook: Installation
Description: Documentation for ark
Keywords: ark zip compression lha

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### 2. Installation

### 2.1 How to obtain Ark

Ark can be found in the kdeutils package of the K Desktop Environment http://www.kde.org. The main ftp site of the KDE project is ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/.

### 2.2 Requirements

- The latest version of KDE. It can be found on ftp://ftp.kde.org/.
- GNU Tar v1.12 and a recent gzip.
- KFM is needed to get full functionality from Ark.
- Qt v1.31. Information regarding Qt can found on http://www.troll.no/.
- The appropriate programs for other archive formats are needed as well. These include lha, zip, unzip, and ar.

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