The releases of this section are outdated and will not be supported. The relating packages may work, but we encourage you to install a recent KDE release.

1. install regular cygwin distribution 

2. Install xfree86 server and check that is running 

3. download all files in this distribution into a new directory 

4. empty 

5. call the setup.exe and install needed packages (at first no devel and src 
   packages are needed)
   Note: kdemisc contains files which are copied into /home/administrator (.xinitrc 
         and .xserverrc) and may overwrite existing files. 
         If you don't want this, don't install kdemisc. Instead unpack kdemisc 
         by hand with 'tar -xjvf kdemisc-1.1.2-b1.tar.bz2' in another directory 
         and inspect the containing files. 
         
         For additional infos relating this look at topic 10

6. Change environment in /etc/profile
   Add the following line to your PATH environment variable in /etc/profile
   export PATH="/usr/local/kde1/bin:/usr/local/lib/qt1/bin:$PATH"

   set KDEDIR in /etc/profile to 
    export KDEDIR=/usr/local/kde1

7. set time zone in /etc/profile (Infos under http://www.cygwin.com)
     
     middle/eastern europe example (from the cygwin mailing list) 
        TZ=CET-1CEST-2,M3.5.0/02:00:00,M10.5.0/03:00:00

8. be shure that the path to the xserver binaries and dll's (usually /usr/X11R6/bin) is available 
   in the PATH environment (for adding this see topic 6)

9. reread /etc/profile 
    . /etc/profile 

10.install the X-relating startup files 
   After installing the kde-misc archive, some x related config files (.xinitrc and .xserverrc) 
   are installed in the default home directory /home/administrator. 
   If you don't use this dir as you home directory copy this file to your home directory. 
  
   $ cp /home/administrator/.x* $HOME