The current version of KBib is 0.6.5
Source code: kbib-0.6.5.tar.gz
RPM package for Fedora 8: kbib-0.6.4-1.fc8.i386.rpm
RPM package for openSuse: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/kzarog/ or http://packman.links2linux.org/package/kbib
Ubuntu deb package: http://packages.ubuntu.com/gutsy/tex/kbib
Gentoo ebuild: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147057
Poppler and poppler-qt are required for KBib version 0.6.1 and later.
Update: Since version 0.6.3, poppler is optional. If poppler and poppler-qt are not available at compliling time, KBib will be compiled without new reference from PDF file function.
To enable searching Z39.50 database servers you need to have YAZ and YAZ++ installed on your system. They can be downloaded from http://www.indexdata.dk.
libxml2 >= 2.6 and libxslt1 >= 1.0.19 are recommended if you want to search Z39.50 servers using USMARC/MARC21/UNIMARC formats or SRU servers using MARC21XML/UNIMARCXML formats.
To install KBib from source, extract the source code file with command:
tar -xzf kbib-0.6.3.tar.gz
and change into KBib directory. Then run the following command:
./configure --prefix=/path/to/kde
where /path/to/kde is the path where KDE is installed. If you aren't sure where KDE is installed type
kde-config --prefix
If configure finished successfully you should run
make
and then
make install(As root)
For Kubuntu users, if you get errors about missing QT header and libraries after running configure, you can consult the solution at: http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=41050&forummode=2&forumpage=0&forumexplevel=all, look at topic 'Re: qt3 error' by trashie. Thanks trashie for posting the solution.
To make reference downloading work in firefox the following three lines should be added to the file .mailcap in your home directory or the file /etc/mailcap:
application/x-research-info-systems; kbib-ris %s
application/x-inst-for-scientific-info; kbib-isi %s
application/x-endnote-refer; kbib-end %s
HTML export requiresbibtex2html. You can get it from:http://www.lri.fr/~filliatr/bibtex2html