Requirements

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# A.2. Requirements

For installing KPackage you need:

- Qt™2 and KDE 2

For listing Debian packages no other software is needed but to install and unistall the packages you need:

- the dpkg package manager or

- apt-get and apt-cache

For BSD packages you need the package management programs:

- pkg_info

- pkg_add

- pkg_delete

For Slackware packages you need:

- installpkg

- removepkg

For dealing with Redhat packages you need:

- RPM and RPM-DEVEL: 3.0 or 4.0

- the same libraries as compiling RPM does. These are:

  - `libdb` - the Berkeley database library

  - `libz` and `libz-dev` - compression library

  - RPM requires the gettext routine which is found in `libc6` or in `libintl`

  - RPM 3.0 may require the `popt` package

For KPackage to work correctly with RPM packages the RPM database must be initialized. If typing `rpm `-qa`` gives an error about `unable to open....` then try `rpm `--rebuilddb``'.

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