This page provides download links and instructions for installing tovid.
Use the source
For platform-independent installation, you can use the source .tar.gz. 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. Finally, do the following:
$ cd ~/Downloads/tovid-0.35.2 $ ./configure $ su -c "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.
Subversion
Use subversion to get the latest code directly from the development repository. You will need to install the tool 'subversion' with your package manager if you don't have it. You'll also 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.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/tovid tovid $ cd tovid $ ./bootstrap $ ./configure $ su -c "make install"
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.
Platform-specific instructions
Note: tovid 0.31 is very old now. Until the distribution-specific packages catch up to the latest release, it is recommended that you use subversion or the source tarball instead of the 0.31 package from your distribution.
Other available package formats (no instructions yet):
- SuSE RPM repository
- Fedora Core yum enabled repository NOTE: As of March 14, 2007 the todiscgui.desktop file (fedora-tovid-todisc.desktop) in the Fedora rpm is broken. Edit and set Terminal=true instead of Terminal=false.
If you have created a tovid package, please become a packager and add links/instructions above.