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<chapter id="how-to-obtain">
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<title>How to Obtain LCDproc</title>
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<sect1 id="versioning">
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<title>Versioning</title>
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<para>
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At the time of writing there were two majors versions of LCDproc floating around on the
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Internet.
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</para>
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<variablelist>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>LCDproc 0.5.2</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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LCDproc 0.5.2 is the current stable version of LCDproc.
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This is the version recommended to use.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>LCDproc 0.5.1</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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LCDproc 0.5.1 is the old stable version of LCDproc.
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It was the second stable version of LCDproc after the move to the 0.5 API.
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It now has been superseeded with LCDproc 0.5.2.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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</variablelist>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="tar">
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<title>Download Yesterday's CVS Version of LCDproc as a Tarball</title>
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<para>
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There are nightly distributions of the CVS branches of LCDproc. You can download them from
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<ulink url="http://lcdproc.sourceforge.net/nightly/"></ulink>
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</para>
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<para>
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To extract the files run either
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</para>
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<screen>
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<prompt>$</prompt> <userinput>tar xvfz lcdproc-CVS-*.tar.gz</userinput>
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</screen>
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<para>
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or
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</para>
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<screen>
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<prompt>$</prompt> <userinput>bunzip2 -c lcdproc-CVS-*.tar.bz2 | tar xv</userinput>
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</screen>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="cvs">
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<title>Download The Latest Version of LCDproc from CVS</title>
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<para>
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Of course you can download the latest stuff from CVS via anonymous login.
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</para>
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<para>
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Login to CVS:
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</para>
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<screen>
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<prompt>$</prompt> <userinput>cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@lcdproc.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/lcdproc login</userinput>
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</screen>
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<para>
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(Hit enter when prompted for a password.)
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</para>
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<para>
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Get the files from CVS:
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</para>
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<screen>
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<prompt>$</prompt> <userinput>cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@lcdproc.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/lcdproc checkout -r stable-0-5-x lcdproc</userinput>
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</screen>
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<para>
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Once you've done that and want to update the downloaded files to the latest stuff
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you can use the "update" command of CVS (Make sure to be in the lcdproc directory.):
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</para>
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<screen>
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<prompt>$</prompt> <userinput>cvs update -d</userinput>
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</screen>
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<para>
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Now that you have downloaded the files you can prepare them for compiling, but first
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you should (you don't have to) copy them to another place on your machine:
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</para>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="apt-get">
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<title>apt-get</title>
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<para>
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Debian GNU/Linux users can get the Debian package of <package>LCDproc</package>,
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which is in the unstable and testing distributions.
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</para>
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<para>
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Provided apt-get is configured properly, you should be able to install the package running:
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</para>
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<screen>
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<prompt>$</prompt> <userinput>su</userinput>
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<prompt>Password:</prompt> <userinput>top secret</userinput>
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<prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>apt-get install lcdproc</userinput>
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</screen>
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</sect1>
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</chapter>
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