# &bibletime; Prerequisites

## Requirements for &bibletime; 1.2

All of the packages required for &bibletime; to compile are included in the major &Linux; distributions. It is also possible to compile &bibletime; on most other &UNIX; distributions. If you encounter compile errors, please read the messages, they should lead you to missing packages which you will probably find on your installation disks.

The following table contains the minimum requirements for &bibletime; binaries to run, or for the source version to compile.

### Packages required for installation of &bibletime; 1.2

Package | Location
--- | ---
&Qt; 3.0.x or higher | http://www.trolltech.com
&kde; 3.x or later (at least the libraries and the base packages) | http://www.kde.org
&sword; 1.5.3 | ftp://ftp.crosswire/pub/sword/source