Install (KDE)

From Jin

This article explains how to install Jin and create a desktop icon for running it on a Unix/KDE system.

Before you start, you need to arm yourself with the following information:

• The directory where you plan to install Jin. In the instructions below, we will assume this directory is ~/apps - replace with your choice where needed. Note that if you select a directory which is not under your home directory (marked by the ~ symbol), you will most likely need to run the installation commands as root.
• The version of Jin you are installing. In the instructions below, we will assume the version is 2.14 - replace with your version where needed.
• The full path of the directory where you downloaded the Jin .tar.gz file. In the instructions below, we will use the mock path /path/to.

Now that you have all these, perform the following steps:

1. Open konsole (a terminal program). Usually found in the K Menu, under "System".
2. Type these commands into konsole (hit ENTER to run each command). Remember to replace the example values with your own.

   mkdir -p ~/apps

   This command will make sure the directory where we plan to install Jin (~/apps) exists.

   cd ~/apps

   Takes us into that directory.

   tar xzf /path/to/jin-2.14-unix.tar.gz

   Extracts the Jin archive you've downloaded into ~/apps, creating a jin-2.14 sub-directory.

This concludes the installation itself. The following instructions create a desktop icon for running Jin.

1. Right-click on an empty spot on the desktop and select "Create New->Link to Application...". A window with several tabs appears.
2. Click on the icon image in the upper left corner (under the "General" tab). The "Select Icon" window opens.
3. Select "Other icons".
4. Click "Browse" and browse to the directory where you've installed Jin (~/apps in our example).
5. Click "icon.png"
6. Click "Open".
7. In the General tab, replace the text "Link to Application" with "Jin" (or "Jin-2.14", if you have another version of Jin you want to run via another desktop icon).
8. Open the "Application" tab.
9. In the "Command" field, enter:

   ~/apps/jin-2.14/jin

   Replace "2.14" with the version of Jin you have.
10. Click "OK".

You should now have a Jin icon on your desktop - click it to start Jin.

If you want to customize the way you run Jin (perhaps having Jin automatically log you in), refer to Jin's Commandline Arguments documentation. To change the command you run Jin with, right click on the Jin desktop icon, select "Properties" and switch to the "Application" tab.

Submitted by pitfall 10 Dec, 2006