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<html><head><title>Compilation and Installation</title><linkrel="stylesheet"href="help:/common/kde-default.css" type="text/css"><metaname="generator"content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.67.2"><metaname="keywords"content="KDE, kdeextragear, kdiff3, diff, merge, CVS, triplediff, compare, files, directories, version control, three-way-merge, in-line-differences, synchronise, kpart, kio, networktransparent, editor, white space, comments"><linkrel="start"href="index.html"title="The KDiff3 Handbook"><linkrel="up"href="installation.html"title="AppendixA.Installation"><linkrel="prev"href="requirements.html"title="Requirements"><metahttp-equiv="Content-Type"content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><metaname="GENERATOR"content="KDE XSL Stylesheet V1.13 using libxslt"></head><bodybgcolor="white"text="black"link="#0000FF"vlink="#840084"alink="#0000FF"><divstyle="background-image: url(help:/common/top-middle.png); width: 100%; height: 131px;"><divstyle="position: absolute; right: 0px;"><imgsrc="help:/common/top-right-konqueror.png"style="margin: 0px"alt=""></div><divstyle="position: absolute; top: 25px; right: 100px; text-align: right; font-size: xx-large; font-weight: bold; text-shadow: #fff 0px 0px 5px; color: #444">Compilation and Installation</div></div><divstyle="margin-top: 20px; background-color: #white; color: black; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px;"><divstyle="position: absolute; left: 20px;"><aaccesskey="p"href="requirements.html">Prev</a></div><divstyle="position: absolute; right: 20px;"></div><divclass="navCenter">Installation</div></div><divclass="sect1"lang="en"><divclass="titlepage"><div><div><h2class="title"style="clear: both"><aname="compilation"></a>Compilation and Installation</h2></div></div></div><p>In order to compile and install <spanclass="application">KDiff3</span> on a system with KDE, type the
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following in the base directory of the <spanclass="application">KDiff3</span> distribution:</p><preclass="screen"><codeclass="prompt">%</code><strongclass="userinput"><code><spanxmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0"class="command"><span><strongclass="command">./configure --prefix=<spanxmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0"class="replaceable"><emclass="replaceable"><code>kde-dir</code></em></span></strong></span></span></code></strong>
<html><head><title>Chapter5.Questions and Answers</title><linkrel="stylesheet"href="help:/common/kde-default.css" type="text/css"><metaname="generator"content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.67.2"><metaname="keywords"content="KDE, kdeextragear, kdiff3, diff, merge, CVS, triplediff, compare, files, directories, version control, three-way-merge, in-line-differences, synchronise, kpart, kio, networktransparent, editor, white space, comments"><linkrel="start"href="index.html"title="The KDiff3 Handbook"><linkrel="up"href="index.html"title="The KDiff3 Handbook"><linkrel="prev"href="kpart.html"title="Using KDiff3 as a KPart"><linkrel="next"href="credits.html"title="Chapter6.Credits and License"><metahttp-equiv="Content-Type"content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><metaname="GENERATOR"content="KDE XSL Stylesheet V1.13 using libxslt"></head><bodybgcolor="white"text="black"link="#0000FF"vlink="#840084"alink="#0000FF"><divstyle="background-image: url(help:/common/top-middle.png); width: 100%; height: 131px;"><divstyle="position: absolute; right: 0px;"><imgsrc="help:/common/top-right-konqueror.png"style="margin: 0px"alt=""></div><divstyle="position: absolute; top: 25px; right: 100px; text-align: right; font-size: xx-large; font-weight: bold; text-shadow: #fff 0px 0px 5px; color: #444">Questions and Answers</div></div><divstyle="margin-top: 20px; background-color: #white; color: black; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px;"><divstyle="position: absolute; left: 20px;"><aaccesskey="p"href="kpart.html">Prev</a></div><divstyle="position: absolute; right: 20px;"><aaccesskey="n"href="credits.html">Next</a></div><divclass="navCenter"></div></div><divclass="chapter"lang="en"><divclass="titlepage"><div><div><h2class="title"><aname="faq"></a>Chapter5.Questions and Answers</h2></div></div></div><p>This document may have been updated since your installation.
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You can find the latest version at <ahref="http://docs.kde.org/development/en/extragear-utils/"target="_top">http://docs.kde.org/development/en/extragear-utils/</a>.</p><divclass="qandaset"><dl><dt>5.1. <ahref="faq.html#id2570336">
<html><head><title>More Features</title><linkrel="stylesheet"href="help:/common/kde-default.css" type="text/css"><metaname="generator"content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.67.2"><metaname="keywords"content="KDE, kdeextragear, kdiff3, diff, merge, CVS, triplediff, compare, files, directories, version control, three-way-merge, in-line-differences, synchronise, kpart, kio, networktransparent, editor, white space, comments"><linkrel="start"href="index.html"title="The KDiff3 Handbook"><linkrel="up"href="introduction.html"title="Chapter1.Introduction"><linkrel="prev"href="screenshots.html"title="Screenshots and Features"><linkrel="next"href="documentation.html"title="Chapter2.File Comparison And Merge"><metahttp-equiv="Content-Type"content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><metaname="GENERATOR"content="KDE XSL Stylesheet V1.13 using libxslt"></head><bodybgcolor="white"text="black"link="#0000FF"vlink="#840084"alink="#0000FF"><divstyle="background-image: url(help:/common/top-middle.png); width: 100%; height: 131px;"><divstyle="position: absolute; right: 0px;"><imgsrc="help:/common/top-right-konqueror.png"style="margin: 0px"alt=""></div><divstyle="position: absolute; top: 25px; right: 100px; text-align: right; font-size: xx-large; font-weight: bold; text-shadow: #fff 0px 0px 5px; color: #444">More Features</div></div><divstyle="margin-top: 20px; background-color: #white; color: black; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px;"><divstyle="position: absolute; left: 20px;"><aaccesskey="p"href="screenshots.html">Prev</a></div><divstyle="position: absolute; right: 20px;"><aaccesskey="n"href="documentation.html">Next</a></div><divclass="navCenter">Introduction</div></div><divclass="sect1"lang="en"><divclass="titlepage"><div><div><h2class="title"style="clear: both"><aname="features"></a>More Features</h2></div></div></div><divclass="sect2"lang="en"><divclass="titlepage"><div><div><h3class="title"><aname="id2490911"></a> Line-By-Line And Char-By-Char Diff-Viewer</h3></div></div></div><p>By using the possiblities of a graphical color display <spanclass="application">KDiff3</span> shows
<html><head><title>More Features</title><linkrel="stylesheet"href="help:/common/tde-default.css" type="text/css"><metaname="generator"content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.67.2"><metaname="keywords"content="KDE, kdeextragear, kdiff3, diff, merge, CVS, triplediff, compare, files, directories, version control, three-way-merge, in-line-differences, synchronise, kpart, kio, networktransparent, editor, white space, comments"><linkrel="start"href="index.html"title="The KDiff3 Handbook"><linkrel="up"href="introduction.html"title="Chapter1.Introduction"><linkrel="prev"href="screenshots.html"title="Screenshots and Features"><linkrel="next"href="documentation.html"title="Chapter2.File Comparison And Merge"><metahttp-equiv="Content-Type"content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><metaname="GENERATOR"content="KDE XSL Stylesheet V1.13 using libxslt"></head><bodybgcolor="white"text="black"link="#0000FF"vlink="#840084"alink="#0000FF"><divstyle="background-image: url(help:/common/top-middle.png); width: 100%; height: 131px;"><divstyle="position: absolute; right: 0px;"><imgsrc="help:/common/top-right-konqueror.png"style="margin: 0px"alt=""></div><divstyle="position: absolute; top: 25px; right: 100px; text-align: right; font-size: xx-large; font-weight: bold; text-shadow: #fff 0px 0px 5px; color: #444">More Features</div></div><divstyle="margin-top: 20px; background-color: #white; color: black; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px;"><divstyle="position: absolute; left: 20px;"><aaccesskey="p"href="screenshots.html">Prev</a></div><divstyle="position: absolute; right: 20px;"><aaccesskey="n"href="documentation.html">Next</a></div><divclass="navCenter">Introduction</div></div><divclass="sect1"lang="en"><divclass="titlepage"><div><div><h2class="title"style="clear: both"><aname="features"></a>More Features</h2></div></div></div><divclass="sect2"lang="en"><divclass="titlepage"><div><div><h3class="title"><aname="id2490911"></a> Line-By-Line And Char-By-Char Diff-Viewer</h3></div></div></div><p>By using the possiblities of a graphical color display <spanclass="application">KDiff3</span> shows
exactly what the difference is. When you have to do many code-reviews, you will like this.
</p><divclass="screenshot"><divxmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0"class="mediaobject"><hr><imgsrc="letter_by_letter.png"><hr></div></div></div><divclass="sect2"lang="en"><divclass="titlepage"><div><div><h3class="title"><aname="id2490942"></a> See White-Space Differences At One Glance</h3></div></div></div><p>Spaces and tabs that differ appear visibly. When lines differ only
in the amount of white space this can be seen at one look in the summary
KDiff3 is a file and directory diff and merge tool which
compares and merges two or three text input files or directories,shows the differences line by line and character by character(!),provides an automatic merge-facility,has an editor for comfortable solving of merge-conflicts,provides networktransparency via KIO,has options to highlight or hide changes in white-space or comments,supports Unicode, UTF-8 and other file encodings,prints differences,supports version control keyword and history merging.
You can download the latest version of <spanclass="application">KDiff3</span> from its homepage <ahref="http://kdiff3.sourceforge.net"target="_top">http://kdiff3.sourceforge.net</a>.
</p><p>
<spanclass="application">KDiff3</span> is also available for other platforms. See the homepage for details.
<html><head><title>Comparing Files And Interpreting The Information In The Input Windows</title><linkrel="stylesheet"href="help:/common/kde-default.css" type="text/css"><metaname="generator"content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.67.2"><metaname="keywords"content="KDE, kdeextragear, kdiff3, diff, merge, CVS, triplediff, compare, files, directories, version control, three-way-merge, in-line-differences, synchronise, kpart, kio, networktransparent, editor, white space, comments"><linkrel="start"href="index.html"title="The KDiff3 Handbook"><linkrel="up"href="documentation.html"title="Chapter2.File Comparison And Merge"><linkrel="prev"href="pasteinput.html"title="Paste and Drop Input"><linkrel="next"href="merging.html"title="Merging And The Merge Output Editor Window"><metahttp-equiv="Content-Type"content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><metaname="GENERATOR"content="KDE XSL Stylesheet V1.13 using libxslt"></head><bodybgcolor="white"text="black"link="#0000FF"vlink="#840084"alink="#0000FF"><divstyle="background-image: url(help:/common/top-middle.png); width: 100%; height: 131px;"><divstyle="position: absolute; right: 0px;"><imgsrc="help:/common/top-right-konqueror.png"style="margin: 0px"alt=""></div><divstyle="position: absolute; top: 25px; right: 100px; text-align: right; font-size: xx-large; font-weight: bold; text-shadow: #fff 0px 0px 5px; color: #444">Comparing Files And Interpreting The Information In The Input Windows</div></div><divstyle="margin-top: 20px; background-color: #white; color: black; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px;"><divstyle="position: absolute; left: 20px;"><aaccesskey="p"href="pasteinput.html">Prev</a></div><divstyle="position: absolute; right: 20px;"><aaccesskey="n"href="merging.html">Next</a></div><divclass="navCenter">File Comparison And Merge</div></div><divclass="sect1"lang="en"><divclass="titlepage"><div><div><h2class="title"style="clear: both"><aname="interpretinginformation"></a>Comparing Files And Interpreting The Information In The Input Windows</h2></div></div></div><divclass="screenshot"><divxmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0"class="mediaobject"><hr><imgsrc="screenshot_diff.png"><hr></div></div><divclass="sect2"lang="en"><divclass="titlepage"><div><div><h3class="title"><aname="id2564410"></a>Info Line</h3></div></div></div><p>
<html><head><title>Comparing Files And Interpreting The Information In The Input Windows</title><linkrel="stylesheet"href="help:/common/tde-default.css" type="text/css"><metaname="generator"content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.67.2"><metaname="keywords"content="KDE, kdeextragear, kdiff3, diff, merge, CVS, triplediff, compare, files, directories, version control, three-way-merge, in-line-differences, synchronise, kpart, kio, networktransparent, editor, white space, comments"><linkrel="start"href="index.html"title="The KDiff3 Handbook"><linkrel="up"href="documentation.html"title="Chapter2.File Comparison And Merge"><linkrel="prev"href="pasteinput.html"title="Paste and Drop Input"><linkrel="next"href="merging.html"title="Merging And The Merge Output Editor Window"><metahttp-equiv="Content-Type"content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><metaname="GENERATOR"content="KDE XSL Stylesheet V1.13 using libxslt"></head><bodybgcolor="white"text="black"link="#0000FF"vlink="#840084"alink="#0000FF"><divstyle="background-image: url(help:/common/top-middle.png); width: 100%; height: 131px;"><divstyle="position: absolute; right: 0px;"><imgsrc="help:/common/top-right-konqueror.png"style="margin: 0px"alt=""></div><divstyle="position: absolute; top: 25px; right: 100px; text-align: right; font-size: xx-large; font-weight: bold; text-shadow: #fff 0px 0px 5px; color: #444">Comparing Files And Interpreting The Information In The Input Windows</div></div><divstyle="margin-top: 20px; background-color: #white; color: black; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px;"><divstyle="position: absolute; left: 20px;"><aaccesskey="p"href="pasteinput.html">Prev</a></div><divstyle="position: absolute; right: 20px;"><aaccesskey="n"href="merging.html">Next</a></div><divclass="navCenter">File Comparison And Merge</div></div><divclass="sect1"lang="en"><divclass="titlepage"><div><div><h2class="title"style="clear: both"><aname="interpretinginformation"></a>Comparing Files And Interpreting The Information In The Input Windows</h2></div></div></div><divclass="screenshot"><divxmlns:doc="http://nwalsh.com/xsl/documentation/1.0"class="mediaobject"><hr><imgsrc="screenshot_diff.png"><hr></div></div><divclass="sect2"lang="en"><divclass="titlepage"><div><div><h3class="title"><aname="id2564410"></a>Info Line</h3></div></div></div><p>
At the top of each text window is its "info line". The info lines of
the input windows contain a letter "A", "B" or "C", the editable filename,
a button for browsing, and the line number of the first visible line in the window.