# 2.3. Compilation and Installation

Compiling KHexEdit is very easy. The following should do it:

       1 % ./configure
       2 % make
       3 % make install

If you run into problems please report them to the the author Espen Sand or to the KDE mailing lists (Take a look at http://lists.kde.org/. Your question might already be answered).

Normally you must be root (have administrator privileges) to successfully do the `"make install"` step.

Note that you can specify a number of options to "configure". A common option is `"--prefix"`. Using this option you can specify where your KDE base directory is. Common arguments to this option is `"/opt/kde"` or `"/usr/local/kde"`. `"configure --help"` lists all available options.