Q: Why Kmud does not compile? (1)
That's the last line of the configure output:
"checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes.
Please check your installation and add the correct paths!"

A: Install the package "xdevel", which contains the needed header-files
included by Kmud.

Q: Why Kmud does not compile? (2)
That's the last line of the configure output:
"checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= 1.42 and < 2.0) (libraries)
not found. Please check your installation!"

A: Kmud needs the (older) version 1 of Qt. So please check ("rpm -qa ¦ grep qt")
if you have the Qt 1.4x libs (and the respective devel package) installed
and set the QTDIR environment variable to this directory (or specify the
path via the --with-qt-dir parameter of configure).

Q: Why Kmud does not compile? (3)
That's the last line of the configure output:
"checking for KDE headers installed... configure: error: your system is not
able to compile a small KDE application! Check, if you installed the KDE
header files correctly."

A: Kmud uses the (older) version 1 of the KDE libraries. So please make sure
that you have these libraries and it's devel package installed.
Then set the KDEDIR environment variable appropriately. Under SuSE it should
be "/opt/kde" under RedHat distributions it´s "/usr".

Q: Why Kmud does not compile? (4)
Running "make" says: "/bin/sh: msgfmt: command not found"

A: "msgfmt" is needed to build the translation files. Please install the
package "mgettext" from your favorite distribution or disable the
internationalization with the configure option "--disable-nls"

Q: Kmud still does not compile! I'm sick of that all.

A: Try one of the rpm's or the binary distribution. See our website
(http://www.kmud.de) for download info or if you still want to compile it your self
take a look at the Kmud 1.0 compile HowTo.

Q: When starting the Kmud 1.0 binary package I get the following error:
kmud: loadlocale.c:220: _nl_load_locale: Assertion `idx % __alignof__
(u_int32_t) == 0' failed.
./kmud: line 20: 3267 Aborted "$KDEDIR"/bin/kmud $1

A:Try setting the environment variable LC_ALL to "C". i.e.: do a
export LC_ALL="C" before running ./kmud.

Q: Do you know a place where I can download the sources of the old Qt1 and KDE1 libs?

A: ftp://ftp.kmud.de/pub/kmud/qt-1.44.tar.bz2 and ftp://ftp.kmud.de/pub/kmud/kdelibs-1.1.2.tar.bz2 or
http://ftp.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/kde/Attic/old/1.1.2/distribution/tar/generic/source/bz2/

Q: I want to make a translation. What do I have to do?

A: You can make translations of the messages in Kmud itself, the handbook or
the website of Kmud. Depending on what you want to translate there are
different things to do. In any case just send an email to the translators
at kmud-i18n@kmud.de and we'll provide you with all information.

Q: I have an Alpha/Linux machine and Kmud stops compiling. The last error is
/usr/lib/qt-1.45/include/qregion.h:73:182: "defined" without an identifier

A: There is a bug in the Qt which bothers your compiler. Please have a look at
http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/redhat/7.0/alpha/qt1x-devel-1.45-11.alpha.html

Q: Will you implement feature <insert your favourite missing feature here,
supposedly scripting or variable support> in Kmud?

A: Just when it started to make fun, we decided to get into a "feature freeze"
for Kmud and only fix bugs until we have released a 1.0 (hopefully stable)
version. Now after the 1.0 version it is possible that new features will
be implemented but it's not very likely because we decided to make a new
Kmud for KDE 2 rather than continue developing on the old Kmud.
(Also see next question)

Q: Will there be a KDE 2 version of Kmud?

A: Yes. After the Kmud 1.0 release we want to concentrate on development of a
KDE2 version of Kmud (codename: Kmud2). Because we wanted to make use of
as much of the new KDE2 features as possible and generally make everything
better, this will be more or less a rewrite rather than just a port.
But when we're finished everything will be shiny and wonderful and all the
features you ever dreamt of will be there ;-)

Q: Do you realize that there is already KDE3 out there?

A: Yes. And actually we switched our development version to KDE3, too.
But this does not mean that we're any closer to a new release. You can
try the daily snapshot to see if there is any progress.
If you want to help in development, you're welcome to contact us at kmud-devel@kmud.de.

Q: How can I compile the Kmud2 daily snapshot?

A:Download and extract the snapshot. Then type in the following commands:

• make -f Makefile.dist
• ./configure
• make
• make install