Obtain KmPlot

Binary Packages

KmPlot 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 KmPlot. If you need other verions, 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 -N svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/branches/KDE/3.5/kdeedu
$ cd kdeedu
$ svn co svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/branches/KDE/3.5/kdeedu/kmplot
$ svn co svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/branches/KDE/3.5/kde-common/admin

Compiling And Installing

Please don't forget to set your QTDIR and KDEDIR variables to point to the correct dirs.

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

$ make -f Makefile.cvs
$ ./configure --prefix=$KDEDIR
$ cd kmplot
$ make
$ su -c "make install"

Last command will prompt you to enter the root password.

Older Tarball

You will find KmPlot packages for KDE1 and KDE2 on KmPlot webpage.