Requirements

Introduction

This page documents all software/libraries you need to run KMyMoney as well as providing links to locate the needed software.

Operating System/Machine

KMyMoney is a KDE3 application and should therefore run on any machine that has the KDE3 desktop environment installed: GNU/Linux, xBSD...

Nevertheless, the following has to be considered:
 
KMyMoney < 0.7 needs KDE 3.0 or above
KMyMoney >= 0.7 needs KDE 3.2 or above
KMyMoney >= 0.8 needs KDE 3.3 or above
KMyMoney >= 0.9 needs KDE 3.4 or above

As mentioned, KMyMoney today is a KDE3 application and does not work on KDE4 w/o the KDE3 libraries being installed at the same time.

Software

The only software needed are the development utilities that are usually installed by most distributions.

Required Libraries

This list shows the libraries that this program requires. They are group in three categories:

• Mandatory for development
  These libraries must be installed on the box you want to compile the application. Some of these libraries come in a separate xxx-devel package (e.g. kde-devel).

• Optional
  These libraries will be used by the application when present. So far, they only serve the development team and are not required for the end-user (e.g. unit-testing support)

The following list contains the libraries required on top of the standard glibc, X, Qt, KDE etc. libraries. We assume those are present on todays distributions. If we are wrong in this assumption, please leave us a note at kmymoney2-developer@lists.sourceforge.net with a short description of your environment and the missing library and we take into the list.

• Mandatory for development
  
  • GNU make ≥ 3.79
  • QT Development ≥ 3.3 && < 4.0
  • KDE Development ≥ 3.5 && < 4.0
• Optional
  
  • cppunit ≥ 1.8.0
    This package is only required if you want to compile and link the automatic test procedures of the KMyMoney engine. This is no application relevant code and only a support tool for the development team.