<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> <title>DeVeDe, a video DVD creator</title> </head> <body bgcolor="#E8E8F0"> <p><div style="text-align: center;"><h1>DeVeDe, a video DVD creator</h1></div></p> <p><a href="index.html">Up: help index</a></p> <p><a href="basic.html">Next: basic usage</a></p> <p><h2>Installing DeVeDe</h2></p> <p>To install DeVeDe, first you must ensure you have <b>Mplayer</b>, <b>Mencoder</b>, <b>DVDAuthor</b>, <b>VCDimager</b> and <b>mkisofs or genisoimage</b> in your system. You need Python 2.4 or later, PyGTK and PyGlade too. Then, just run the <b>install.sh</b> script as root:</p> <p><div style="text-align: center"><h3><b>sudo ./install.sh</b></h3></div></p> <p>It will copy all the files at the right place. It should even create an entry in your Gnome/KDE/freedesktop-compatible-windowmanager menu.</p> <p>For advanced users, there are some extra paremeters that you can pass to the install.sh script (thanks to Patrick Monnerat). These are the <i>--targeted=(yes/no)</i>, <i>--uninstall=(yes/no)</i>, and the more common ones (<i>--DESTDIR=...</i>, <i>--prefix=...</i>).</p> <p>The <i>--targeted</i> parameter means that you want to install DeVeDe in a directory different than /usr/local. If you put it to <b>yes</b> you must use <i>--DESTDIR=</i> and <i>--prefix=</i> at least to specify where to store the files.</p> <p>The <i>--uninstall</i> parameter was a need due to a mistake in the first versions of DeVeDe. Up to version 2.8, the <i>install.sh</i> script installed DeVeDe in /usr, but starting from version 2.9 it used /usr/local. To avoid problems when an user updates from a version lower than 2.9 to a higher one, by default the <i>install.sh</i> script first uninstall DeVeDe from all possible locations (/usr and /usr/local), and then proceed with the installation itself. This is a good effect until you want to create a .deb or .rpm package. In this case, just add the <i>--uninstall=no</i> parameter and the <i>install.sh</i> script will only do the install process, skipping the previous uninstall.</p> <p>So if you are a package developer, you should use a command line like:</p> <p><div style="text-align: center">./install.sh --uninstall=no --targeted=yes --DESTDIR=/var/tmp/blahblah --prefix=/usr</div></p> <p><h2>Using the DEB package</h2></p> <p>If you want to install DeVeDe from a DEB package, you must ensure that any previous version installed from a TAR.BZ2 package has been removed. You can do that with the <b>uninstall.sh</b> script available in the TAR.BZ2 package. But you don't need to uninstall previous versions installed from a DEB package.</p> <p><a href="index.html">Up: help index</a></p> <p><a href="basic.html">Next: basic usage</a></p> </body> </html>
