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2. Installing Gnome Toaster

2.1 Before you install Gnometoaster

Before you install Gnometoaster,make sure you have at least gtk 1.2 plus the development files (the headers) for gtk installed on your system. gtk-config has to return the right values for your gtk-directories and files (test with "gtk-config --cflags --libs"). You can get a current version of Gtk from http://www.gtk.org. (if you have Gnome installed on your system you´ll get some advantages in future releases of Gnome Toaster,e.g. Multilanguage support,nice Icons etc.You can obtain Gnome from http://www.gnome.org)

This is really all you need to compile Gnometoaster. In order to actually use it,you´ll need a copy of the Cdrecord package by Joerg Schilling. To read out audiotracks from cds you´ll additionally need cdda2wav or any similar program. Another program called sox enables preliminary wav file processing. Configuring Cdrecord etc. should not be a problem with the only issue about them being that they have to be available in your standard unix search path.At least sox currently has to,all other programs´ locations and settings can be edited in Gnometoaster´s Preferences Menu,a process described more detailed in Section Configuring Gnometoaster.

2.2 Compiling and installing Gnometoaster

to install Gnome Toaster,first get the gtoaster-Archive from http://gnometoaster.home.pages.de and decompress it into a directory of your choice. enter the directory called gtoaster and type "make". This should start building your program.After the building process has finished type "make install",which will install Gnometoaster in /usr/local/bin/gtoaster.

2.3 Troubleshooting - What if Gnometoaster won´t compile ?

Problems during compilation are at a rate close to 90% caused by a misconfigured Gnome/Gtk environment. Make sure gtk-config returns the right values.Also ensure you have a recent version of Gtk installed on your system. You´ll need at least Gtk1.2 and it´s corresponding glib1.2 to run Gnometoaster. For the case you really can´t solve your compilation problem try compiling other gtk software. If this should work please submit a bug report to A.Eckleder@bigfoot.com. Do the same thing if you experience any unwanted behavior etc. Bugs that aren´t reported will probably never be fixed.


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