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7. Installation

7.1 How to obtain KMid

KMid is a core application of the KDE project http://www.kde.org. KMid can be found on the KDEmultimedia package, which is at ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/, the main ftp site of the KDE project. You can also download it from any of the many ftp mirrors whose list is at http://www.kde.org/mirrors.html.

Additionally, KMid can be found on its homepage, which is at http://www.arrakis.es/~rlarrosa/kmid.html. In the homepage, you can follow its development, see some information about it, some screenshots, a list of sites from where you can download more karaoke songs, etc.

7.2 Requirements

KMid requires to work:

• KDE
  Well, you probably already have this :-)

• A sound card
  A good soundcard and/or external synthesizer are recommended, as the sound quality depends greatly in your soundcard, it's not the same to play the music using an FM device, than using an AWE card .

  If you don't have a soundcard, you can still compile KMid with MODE_DEMO_ONLYVISUAL defined and it will run as if you had one (but you'll get no music, of course :-( ).

7.3 Compilation and installation

If you downloaded the KDEmultimedia package, or just the KMid package, to compile KMid you must run configure, then make and then, to install it, make install (most probably, as root).

I've included some examples that are installed in $dollar;KDEDIR/share/apps/kmid

If you run into any problem, don't hesitate to contact any of the KDE mailing list, or send a report directly to me.

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