Kexi is an integrated environment for managing data. Kexi project helps in creating database schemas, inserting, querying and processing data.

As Kexi is a real member of the KDE and KOffice projects, it integrates fluently into both. It is designed to be fully usable also without KDE on Linux/Unix and MS Windows platforms (Mac OS X version planned).

Kexi is also considered as long awaited MS Access replacement.

Requirements:

· Kexi requires KDE libraries (kdelibs) of version 3.2 or newer, and development packages for this libraries (often names kdelibs-devel or kdelibs-dev, depending on your Linux distribution).

Compilation:

Go to command line and type:

./configure --prefix=`kde-config --prefix` --enable-debug=full
make
su -c "make install"

Notes for configure stage:

* Special case: if you have downloaded (or checked out from CVS) entire KOffice source code (i.e. all koffice/ subdirectories) but want to only compile Kexi, not KWord, KSpread, etc., please create inst-apps in koffice/ directory. The file should contain names of directories you want to configure and compile (separated by spaces). For example, if you want to only compile Kexi, put (before running configure):

kexi

Otherwise, you may want to compile KWord and some other directories, eg. putting:

filters lib kword kexi

* type ./configure --help to see configure options. You may want to add --with-.... to enable some other options.
* --enable-debug=full option is not required but highly recommended, because you can get more verbose error reports (backtraces) in canse of problems/crashes and send these to Kexi authors.

What's New in This Release:

· This service release, aside from many fixes and improvements, also brings two new features.
· The first is a "Find" window that works within table, query, and form views as a global, context-dependent window.
· Printing and previewing images within Simple Printouts is supported.