The releases of this section are outdated and will not be supported.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.

Downloading of KDE 2 binary packages could be done by hand or by the setup installer. For downloading by hand you found some hints in this page, while downloading by setup installer is described in the setup installation page.

How to download:

Make sure you have installed cygwin and xfree 4.2.0.

Download the following files: 

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/kde-cygwin/cygipc-1.11-1.tar.bz2

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/kde-cygwin/audiofile-0.2.1-20011218.tar.bz2

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/kde-cygwin/qt-2.3.1-b2.tar.bz2

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/kde-cygwin/kdelibs-2.2.2-b1.tar.bz2

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/kde-cygwin/kdelibs-2.2.2-b1-p1.tar.bz2

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/kde-cygwin/kdelibs-2.2.2-b1-p2.tar.bz2

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/kde-cygwin/kdebase-2.2.2-b1.tar.bz2

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/kde-cygwin/kde-x-1.3.tar.bz2

and optional 

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/kde-cygwin/kdevelop-a1.tar.bz2

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/kde-cygwin/kdepim-2.2.1-a2.tar.bz2

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/kde-cygwin/kdegames-2.2.1-a2.tar.bz2

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/kde-cygwin/kdenetwork-2.2.2-b1.tar.bz2

to a local dir. 

After downloading start a bash shell, enter cygwin root (this it the base directory, where you have installed cygwin i.e. c:\cygwin) and unpack all archives.

$ cd /   
$ tar -xjf /.tar.bz2

Now see the postinstallation page for the steps that should be done before you can enjoy KDE 2.