About KPilot

This is the current (April 1999) beta release of KPilot, the Palm Pilot/Workpad hot-sync software for Unix. KPilot is intended to eventually provide all the functionality of the Windows software provided by 3-Com and more. Currently KPilot can do complete backups and restores of the pilot, incremental backups of modified data, display/modify both memos and addresses, email syncing with a pop-server, and prc/pdb file installation. See What's Ahead to see what's currently on the drawing board. KPilot is written for the K Desktop Environment and requires the KDE & Qt libraries to compile. However, you do not have to be running KDE to use KPilot. (ie: You can use KPilot under FVWM, Afterstep, 4Dwm, < insert your favorite window manager here > . However, KPilot is designed to take advantage of the advanced features of KDE when possible, so using both is recommended.

More info about Kpilot and the sources are available at the KPilot Homepage

I made a RPM package, ready to install on S.u.S.E. Linux. It needs KDE 1.1 and LibQT 1.42. It's compiled on SuSE Linux 6.0, if you have somthing different, try the source PRM, which should work almost everywhere...

Download the RPMs for KPilot here:

kpilot-3.1b8-0.i386.rpm kpilot-3.1b8-0.src.rpm

Install the package using rpm -i kpilot-3.0.2-0.i386.rpm.
Be sure you have read and write permissions to the serial port your Pilot is connected to.
Now you should have no problems running KPilot.