Getting Started/Build/Historic

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This page is accurate as of 2006-08-07 for building older KDE stable versions. Other pages containing similar information are being consolidated to here. Please help me find any similar pages so I can consolidate them. This page is being actively updated, contact kde.org AT phor.net with any questions or hints.

Old Stable Versions of KDE

Note: I don't know why you'd want to install older versions. Nonetheless, you've come to this page for that very reason. Please let me know what your motivation is so I can edit this page accordingly.

Compiling KDE 3.4.x: Instructions for installing KDE 3.4.x from source code.

Compiling KDE 3.3.x: Instructions for installing KDE 3.3.x from source code.

Compiling KDE 3.2.x: Instructions for installing KDE 3.2.x from source code.

Compiling KDE 3.1.x: Instructions for installing KDE 3.1.x from source code.

Compiling KDE 3.0.x: Instructions for installing KDE 3.0.x from source code.

Compiling KDE 2.2.2: Instructions for installing KDE 2.2.2 from source code.

KDE 2 on Solaris 2.6: Hints for compiling KDE for the Solaris operating system.