# Installation

## How to obtain &kapp;

The &kapp; source can be found at http://download.kde.org/stable/kxstitch/. The &kapp; homepage can be found at http://userbase.kde.org/KXStitch

## Requirements

&kapp; has been written for &kde; 4.x with &Qt; 4.x.

For the image import functions the ImageMagick libraries are required, this includes the development headers ImageMagick and Magick++, these are available with your distribution or from http://www.imagemagick.org/.

## Compilation and Installation

Compilation of KXStitch requires cmake and suitable build tools, make, gcc, etc. A build script has been provided which should perform the necessary compilation operations and install KXStitch for which you may be required to enter the root password.

                    bash$./build.sh