This chapter will briefly describe the ioslave framework. If you have KDE 2.0 or any KDE 2 Beta installed, then everything you need is already there.
The first part that needs to be installed is the KDE IO library (libkio). This library is part of the KDE 2.x kdelibs package. It will be installed by default on all KDE 2.x systems when 2.x is finally released. In the meantime, you will need to get it through either CVSUP, anonymous CVS, snapshots, or the latest KDE 2 Beta release. See www.kde.org for details on that.
libkio depends on the KDE UI library (libkdeui), the KDE Core library (libkdecore), and Qt (libqt). These are the "standard" KDE libraries so there shouldn't be any problems, there.