This chapter describes obtaining and building Quanta.
Many linux distros are bundling Quanta. Please check your favorite vendors site for a package tailored to your distro. If that fails, see Linux Easy for a RedHat oriented rpm of the latest cvs source.
Release versions of the Quanta source code can be obtained from the SourceForge home page. Once downloaded, simply unpack it into a directory and then go to Building the source to finish.
If you have to have access to the very latest features (and potentially, bugs), you can obtain Quanta via anonymous CVS with the following:
%cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.kde.org:/home/kde login CVS login:<enter> %cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.kde.org:/home/kde co quanta
A short download later, you should have a quanta directory under your current working directory.
To finish things up, cd to the quanta/admin directory and type:
%cvs update -P -C -d -R -r KDE_3_0_BASE
A short while later, all these files will be updated. One last bit before we can build the source.
%make -f Makefile.cvs
This creates a number of files necessary to build the source. From here go to Building the source to finish.