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2. Compiling and installing.

There are two ways to install CdMio on your linux box : you can download the latest source code and compile it on your system or simply grab a RPM file and install it. In the following we'll describe the steps needed in each of the two ways.

2.1 Compiling the source code.

Ok, so you have a tarball named something like "cdmio-0.03.tar.gz" (It can be slightly different...). The first thing to do is simply extract the files from it :


tar -zxvf cdmio-0.03.tar.gz
 

, this will create a directory called "cdmio-0.03" (again, this could vary...) and a lot of stuff into it. Now you can build the program, typing :


make
 

. During compilation a lot of "warning" messages might be shown : you can ignore them. If everything is ok, you should have a program called "cdmio" in this directory. Good ! You have just built CdMio. If you wish, you can install CdMio in "/usr/local/bin", so (if this directory is in your path) you can call CdMio by simply typing "cdmio" instead of moving to "cdmio-0.03" and typing "./cdmio". This is accomplished by typing


make install
 

.

2.2 Installing from RPM.

If you have downloaded the RPM file, you can install on your system a pre-compiled version of CdMio. If you are using Gnome or KDE, you can use a nice graphical tool such as "gnorpm" or "kpackage" to perform this really simplee task. If you are not a complete "Windows(tm)ish-addicted", anyway, you can simply install by using


rpm -ivh cdmio-0.03-2.i386.rpm
 

where "cdmio-0.03-2.i386.rpm" can be something slightly different. The program will be installed in "/usr/local/bin", the documentation files in "/usr/doc/cdmio-0.03" (or accordingly to program version).


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