From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net ([207.172.4.62]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1APOxG-0005RO-00 for ; Thu, 27 Nov 2003 11:25:22 -0500 Received: from 208-59-170-65.c3-0.slvr-ubr2.lnh-slvr.md.cable.rcn.com ([208.59.170.65] helo=ccrawford.Starpower.net) by smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #4) id 1APOxE-00003X-00 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Thu, 27 Nov 2003 11:25:20 -0500 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20031127114233.01dde3c0@pop.Starpower.net> X-Sender: ccrawford@pop.Starpower.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 11:43:03 -0500 To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." From: Charles Crawford In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Subject: Re: Icecast X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.3 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 16:25:22 -0000 Geoff, you are cool. It worked but for one Library I have to update. Thanks! -- chgarlie. At 02:47 PM 11/27/2003 +1000, you wrote: >Hi Charles: > >Great to see more people getting into icecast. > >Installing software from a source tarball is easy. And they pretty much >all install the same way. Here's what I do when I download a source >tarball. > >1. Unpack it with tar -zxf for tar.gz or tgz files, or a >variant on that for bz2 files (this will depend on your version of tar). >You may wish to view the archive first by substituting the x with t, but in >99% of cases, the files will unpack into a subdirectory which will have the >same name as the tarball. > >2. Change into the subdirectory. Note that occasionally these will be >capitalised, so finding it might take a little guessswork. > >3. Read the Readme file. This will usually contain installation >instructions, or will tell you where to read them (possibly in an Install >file). > >4. Most programs use configure and make to compile. If this one does, use >the following commands: > >./configure --help |more > >I always do this in case there's stuff burried away in configure that has >been left out of the documentation. The only real part of interest is the >section near the end which talks about "enable and with options". Have a >quick read through there in case there are items you wish to enable or >disable. In most cases however, you can safely ignore these and in a lot >of cases, there won't be anything there of much interest to the typical >user. > >5. Type ./configure. If you have anyy options you wish to use, put them >on the command line (e.g. ./configure --disable-nls) > >6. Assuming configure ran without errors, type make. This will compile >the program. Then type "make install" to install it (usually in >/usr/local, if you want it somewhere else then use the --prefix option when >running configure). > >Now you should be good to go! > >Geoff. > > >-- >Geoff Shang >ICQ number 43634701 > >Make sure your E-mail can be read by everyone! >http://www.betips.net/etc/evilmail.html > >Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. >See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup@braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup