To obtain the last version of KFileReplace, you can surf on the project homepage: http://kfilereplace.sourceforge.net/. You can download the sources in tar.bz2 format (need bzip2), or in RPM for Redhat or Suse. You also can download KFileReplace from the KDE server: http://www.kde.org/, in utils part, or by typing "kfilereplace" in http://ftpsearch.lycos.com/.
KFileReplace needs the Qt 2.1 library ( http://www.troll.no/ ), and KDE 2.x (K Desktop Environment: http://www.kde.org/ ), under an Linux or other UNIX system. The KDE is present in all recent Linux distributions, as Redhat ( http://www.redhat.com/ ), Mandrake ( http://www.linux-mandrake.com/ ), Suse ( http://www.suse.com/ ).
When you have downloaded the tar.bz2 sources file, you can type this command te decompress: bzip2 -dc kfilereplace*.tar.bz2 | tar x. Then, a directory will be created, and all the sources are inside. Now, type cd kfilereplace-version to enter in the directory, and type these lines to compile, and install KFileReplace:
% ./configure
% make
% make install
If you have problems to compile, you can delete the file "config.cache" in the source files directory.
To install an archive which is in the RPM format (Redhat Package Manager), just type the following command: rpm -ivh kfilereplace*.rpm. If there are problems, add --nodeps --force to the end of the line.
Since KFileReplace uses autoconf you should have not trouble compiling it. Should you run into problems please report them to the the author at François Dupoux