How to get KDevelop 3

KDevelop-3 should be part of your distribution. Pre 3 versions of KDevelop were nicknamed Gideon but they are quite obsolete now.

If you cannot find KDevelop-3 for your distribution, please see the next section to get it from source and to compile it.

KDevelop can be downloaded from the KDevelop website in the section Download to find the nearest mirror. At the time of writing, latest KDevelop 3.0 source version is 3.0.4. Latest packages are kdevelop-3.0.4.tar.bz2. You can download it from a mirror here.

To compile KDevelop 3: you need qt-3.1.0 or higher and kdelibs-3.1.0 or higher. The environment variables QTDIR and KDEDIR should point to those directories.

Don't forget to set up the KDE and Qt paths. The most common errors while using KDevelop come from the environment variables not set up properly. Check in a console by issuing the command 'set' to see all your environment variables. You should set your PATH variable as follow as well as your LD_LIBRARY_PATH:

export PATH=$QTDIR/bin:$KDEDIR/bin:$PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$QTDIR/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

If you never used KDevelop before, try to create a new project and to compile it to get used to the interface and the icons.

A brief section for those you would like to get the last thing available! And KDevelop from CVS is really worth the download. You need qt-3.2.3 or higher and kdelibs-3.1.0 or higher.

 mkdir KdevelopCVS
 cd KDevelopCVS
 export CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.kde.org:/home/kde
 cvs login
 (enter for password)
 cvs co kdevelop

When the download is finished:

 make -f Makefile.cvs
 ./configure --prefix='kde-config --prefix'
 make
 make install (as root)
 

Please see the compiling instructions on the KDevelop website to get more details.