Chapter 3. Installation

Table of Contents

Build LCDproc
Install LCDproc Directly From The Sources
Generate And Install Packages of LCDproc

Build LCDproc

Now that you have downloaded the LCDproc distribution you can start building it.

Note

If you have installed the Debian package with apt-get (or another Debian package management tool), you can skip this this chapter.

If you're building this version from CVS, you'll need autoconf, automake, aclocal and autoheader installed.

If you have autoconf and friends, run:

$ sh autogen.sh

This produces the configure script and supporting files. It has already been run if you are using the tarball distribution.

Once the above command has run, the rest is pretty standard:

$ ./configure --help

Read about the options, figure out what to use.

$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-drivers=curses,CFontz

Be sure to replace /usr/local with the prefixdir you want (e.g. /usr for RedHat) and curses,CFontz with the comma-separated list of drivers you want to have compiled.

$ make

Congratulations: You have just compiled your version of LCDproc ;)