Changes: Installing tovid

Revision as of 02:55, 28 February 2007

This page provides download links and instructions for installing tovid.

From a package

Several tovid users have kindly created packages for tovid:

Other package contributions are welcome; if you've created a package, please become a packager and add a link to your package above.

From the source tarball

If you install from the source .tar.gz, you should first install all tovid dependencies, to prevent potential problems.

Next, download tovid-0.35.2.tar.gz. This tarball contains everything you need to run tovid and the GUI. Save this somewhere on your computer (for now, we'll assume it's saved in ~/Downloads/).

To extract the tarball, open a terminal window (such as XTerm, RXVT, or Konsole) and type the following commands, substituting for ~/Downloads the path where you saved the .tar.gz:

$ cd ~/Downloads
$ tar -xzvf tovid-0.35.2.tar.gz

The installation files will go into a subdirectory tovid-0.35.2 within the current directory. Next, do the following:

$ cd ~/Downloads/tovid-0.35.2
$ ./configure
$ su -c "make install"

Ubuntu users should use sudo make install instead, and must have package build-essential installed. Also, if you want to install a deb instead of the normal way of installing, use sudo checkinstall instead of 'sudo make install'

You will be prompted for the root password to install tovid system-wide. If you decide you don't want tovid installed anymore, run make uninstall from the original installation directory (~/Downloads/tovid-0.35.2) as root.

Again, Ubuntu users should use sudo make uninstall instead.

From SVN

For life on the bleeding edge, you can get a copy of the latest development version of tovid. The easiest way is to download the most recent quick-release, and install it as you would a normal release. These quick-releases are just like official releases, except more unstable.

Another way is to use Subversion (SVN) to get the latest code directly from the development repository. You'll need the tool used to make the manpages: txt2tags. Again, assuming you want to put the tovid installer in ~/Downloads:

 $ cd ~/Downloads
 $ svn checkout http://tovid.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/tovid/trunk/tovid
 $ cd tovid
 $ ./bootstrap
 $ ./configure
 $ su -c "make install"

Use sudo make install on Ubuntu.

You should now have the latest version installed (bugs and all!) You can keep in sync with updates by doing:

$ cd ~/Downloads/tovid
$ svn update
$ ./bootstrap

followed by a re-install (./configure && su -c "make install"). See the SVN crash course for more about dealing with SVN. If you install from SVN, you're strongly encouraged to start hanging out with the developers on the IRC channel, or on the tovid forum, to get involved with development. Even if you don't know the first thing about code, your input is needed. (Do you really want to leave tovid in the hands of a bunch of code monkeys?)

Check out the Development plans and talk page.

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-{{Note|Ubuntu users should use '''sudo make install''' instead, and must have package '''build-essential''' installed.  Also, if you want to install a deb so that it is easier to remove tovid with a simple 'sudo apt-get remove tovid', use '''sudo checkinstall''' instead of 'sudo make install'}}
+{{Note|Ubuntu users should use '''sudo make install''' instead, and must have package '''build-essential''' installed.  Also, if you want to install a deb instead of the normal way of installing, use '''sudo checkinstall''' instead of 'sudo make install'}}
 You will be prompted for the root password to install tovid system-wide. If you decide you don't want tovid installed anymore, run '''make uninstall''' from the original installation directory ('''~/Downloads/{{LatestRelease}}''') as root.