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2. Installation

The installation of krabber is the same as other KDE applications, but it need some other applications to do something.

2.1 How to obtain Krabber

Krabber can downloaded from the KDE ftp-server. ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/1.1.1/apps/multimedia/. The Homepage is hosted by www.automatix.de.

2.2 How tto install Krabber

The compilation and installation is as usual:

% ./configure
% make
% make install

2.3 Requiered applications for Krabber

Some applications should be installed on your system default PATH (/usr/local/bin for example).

Krabber scans every start your system for these applications. Please check your installation and the version number if Krabber did not found an application.

If you want to create new mp3 files, you need at least one of this one:

2.4 Set permissions

You need some permission settings, to be able to read from your CD device: the best way is:

chmod 0777 /dev/CD_DEVICE

CD_DEVICE is the node file for your CD device, for example hdc(IDE device which is MASTER on the SECOND IDE channel), scd0(the first SCSI CD-ROM). NOTE: /dev/cdrom is mostly only a link to the real node file.

An easy way to enable the permissions for each device is:

chown root.root PATH_TO_CDPARANOIA/cdparanoia

chmod 6777 PATH_TO_CDPARANOIA/cdparanoia

WARNING: cdparanoia has access to EACH (even a working CD burner or your harddisc) device.

2.5 For people with a registered l3enc

Only for people with a registered l3enc release: install your register.inf file to any DIR and edit the l3enc.startup script in scripts/l3enc.startup (installed in KDEDIR/share/apps/krabber/scripts/l3enc.startup) and edit the file. Default is your home directory.


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