Building and installing KDE Partition Manager Core Library from source ========================================================= 1. Dependencies libparted: Either get it from http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/download.shtml and build it yourself or, preferably, install your distribution's packages (don't forget the dev-package). libblkid: Part of the util-linux-ng project available at http://userweb.kernel.org/~kzak/util-linux-ng/. libatasmart: Available from http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/being-smart.html KDE Frameworks: The minimum required version is 5.0. 2. Configure KDE Partition Manager is built with cmake. It is recommended to build out of tree: After unpacking the source, create a separate build directory and run cmake there: $ tar xfj kpmcore-x.y.z.tar.bz2 $ cd partitionmanager-x.y.z $ mkdir build $ cd build $ cmake .. If all dependencies are met, cmake configures the build directory. 3. Build and install Just run make and make install in the build directory. The default install path is /usr/local, so installing will need write privileges there. You can configure a different install path by passing -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX= to cmake when configuring. To change the install path after configuring and building, run $ ccmake . in the build directory and modify CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX there.