Download Kig

Franco Pasquarelli made available an unofficial RPM of the most recent version of Kig, which you can find here. Thanks Franco :)

Compiling Kig from SVN

First of all, you should be aware of the current SVN version is the place where development occurs, and sometimes, it may crash, or mess up data like macros you have created, or files you try to open or save to. Generally, this shouldn't happen, but I can't guarantee it won't.

In order to compile Kig form SVN, you should do the following steps:

Linux Binary Packages

Kig is shipped out by the distributors with the kdeedu package. Some like Debian build separate packages for every application hosted by the KDE Edu Project.

Source Tarballs

KDE itself offers a tarball containing the sources of the kdeedu module. It can be found on the KDE download page. Follow the instructions in the INSTALL file inside.

SVN

You can fetch the source code from the SVN repository. This small tutorial will show you how to fetch, compile, and install the latest development version of Kig. If you need other versions, please refer the official "Subversion with KDE" tutorial.

SVN Client Version

Ensure that you have a SVN client version 1.1 or later installed on your machine.

Fetching the Sources

Follow these steps:

$ svn co svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/branches/KDE/4.3/kdeedu
$ cd kdeedu

Compiling and Installing

To compile and install Kig change into the kdeedu directory. Now follow these steps:

$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$KDEDIRS -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=debugfull ..
$ cd kig
$ make
$ su -c "make install"

Last command will prompt you to enter the root password.

On Windows

You can install KDE on Windows by following the instructions here: http://windows.kde.org/download.php.

Post-KDE 3.5 version

The development of Kig hasn't stopped after KDE 3.5. For more info you can take a look at the development page of Kig to see what happened between KDE 3.5 and 4.0.