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You can use both, but GRAMPS fits in better with GNOME. For KDE there are some minor issues due to some (GTK) issues outside of GRAMPS. Check the [[KDE page]] to know what these problems might be.

GRAMPS does not rely on the following programs, however, having them will increase your productivity:

* '''desktop-file-utils''': see list of programs to open a media file on right click on an image

GRAMPS 2.0 requires python 2.3 and the gnome-python and pygtk2 packages. The gnome-python module should be 2.6.0 or greater. The pygtk package should be version 2.5.0 or greater.

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* The lastest stable version of GRAMPS can be downloaded from the [http://sourceforge.net/projects/gramps GRAMPS SourceForge page]. As of this writing, this is gramps-2.2.10.tar.gz. Extract this file into a directory: <code>

Please, now is the time to read the [http://gramps.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/gramps/trunk/INSTALL?view=markup INSTALL] and [http://gramps.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/gramps/trunk/README?view=markup README] files accompanying the code. They come with the most recent information.

Debian users will have various editions installed on their kit. Invariably the installation of GRAMPS requires more files, libraries, etc, than are available in the installed Debian software. Additionally, that there will be dependencies to be addressed.

make install (as root) </code>

Installing on BSD is as straithforward as on linux, apart from some minor issues like tools having different names. See the [[BSD page]] for details.

Some users have successfully installed GRAMPS on Mac OS X. See the [[Mac OS X]] page for details. Please, add to the wiki if you successfully installed GRAMPS on OS X.

Fortunately for users of Microsoft Windows, some users have made a [[Windows installer]]. So far there have not been any reports of serious differences between the official builds of GRAMPS and the Windows Installer, so the future looks promising. But please, use this at your own risk. The developers of GRAMPS provide the space for this install page, but are not responsible for it.

If the dependencies are in place, the development version can be tested by getting the source (see above), renaming the file const.py.in to const.py, and executing "python gramps.py" from within the src directory. Of course, this is a development version on an unsupported platform, so warnings apply even more to this case than when using the installer. (I have not managed to get a localized build working this way.)

Previous versions of GRAMPS have run on Solaris. No recent cases are known to us however. Should you have successfully installed GRAMPS on Solaris, please update the [[Solaris page]].

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