In order to successfully use Dolphin you need to at least have kdebase and kdelibs from KDE 3.5 installed. Dolphin may work on older versions of KDE, however not all functions offered by Dolphin may work.

In order to compile Dolphin you will also require libqt2-mt-dev, libx11-dev, kdebase-dev, zlibg-dev and gcc.

Other KDE libraries may also be required for some advanced features.