<appendix id="installation"
> 
<title
>Installation</title
> 

<sect1 id="getting-knode"
> 
<title
>Where do I get &knode;?</title
> &install.intro.documentation; </sect1
> 

<sect1 id="requirements"
> 
<title
>Requirements</title
> 
<anchor id="anc-requirements"/> 

<para
>If you want to successfully install &knode;, you need &kde; 3.x; if, in addition, you want to use &knode; as an offline newsreader, you need a local news server, &eg; <ulink url="http://www.leafnode.org"
><application
>leafnode</application
></ulink
>.</para>
</sect1
> 

<sect1 id="compilation">
<title
>Compile and install</title>

<para
>&knode; is part of the kdenetwork package of &kde; 3.x and is installed together with it, provided you have chosen to install the kdenetwork package; so, in general, there is no need for a user to compile the sources of &knode;.</para>
&install.compile.documentation; </sect1>

<sect1 id="update-installation">
<title
>Notes about updating an older version of &knode;</title>

<para
>This section contains notes about what to take care of when installing a newer version of &knode; with an older version already installed.</para>

<sect2 id="update-file-changes">
<title
>Changes in configuration files and folders</title>

<para
>Since version 0.2 the format of the configuration files and the saved articles has changed, so unfortunately, your old configuration files cannot be imported.</para>

<para
>If you update from a version 
>= 0.4 the local folders will automatically be converted into the new format; you will then be unable to use the data with an older version of &knode; any more.</para>
</sect2>

</sect1>
</appendix
> 