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 <filename> 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 <gshang at uq.net.au> 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
