KDAriane installation instructions: 1. set the shell variable KDARIANE to the folder where you checked out the SVN repository export KDARIANE=~/svn/kdariane 2. add the $KDARIANE/bin and the $JAVA_HOME/bin to your PATH : export PATH=$PATH:$KDARIANE/bin:$JAVA_HOME/bin 3. type 'make' in the folder. It will build the C++ binaries. 4. type 'make install' in the folder. It will add the binaries in the 'bin' folder. 5. you can now launch Ariane with 'java -jar ariane.jar'