At the time of writing the following majors versions of LCDproc are floating around on the internet: LCDproc 0.5.7 LCDproc 0.5.7 is the current stable version of LCDproc. This is the version recommended to use. Older releases Older releases of LCDproc can be found on the Sourceforge project page at . The snapshot of the current source code repository may be downloaded from the web. Goto and click on "Download GNU tarball". To extract the files run $ tar xvfz lcdproc.tar.gz Of course you can download the latest stuff from CVS via anonymous login. Login to CVS: $ cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@lcdproc.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/lcdproc login (Hit enter when prompted for a password.) Get the files from CVS: $ cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@lcdproc.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/lcdproc checkout -r stable-0-5-x lcdproc Once you've done that and want to update the downloaded files to the latest stuff you can use the "update" command of CVS (Make sure to be in the lcdproc directory.): $ cvs update -d Now that once you have downloaded the files you can prepare them for compiling, but first you should (you don't have to) copy them to another place on your machine.