~~NOCACHE~~



===== GNU/Linux installation ======

This page contains specific installations procedures for Gnu/Linux systems. Dependencies should be managed automatically.

Most of these packages are external contributions. So they may be out of synchronization with last offical one.

The packagers deserve a lot of thanks for their work.

===== ArchLinux =====

GCstar has been added to the **community** repository. So first activate it by editing **/etc/pacman.conf** to uncomment corresponding line. Then following command will launch the installation:

<terminal>pacman -S gcstar</terminal>


===== Debian =====

GCstar has been included into **Debian Sid (unstable)** and **Debian Squeeze (testing)**. So users only need to run (as root):

<terminal>apt-get install gcstar</terminal>

===== Exherbo =====

Masked in [[http://git.exherbo.org/summer/repositories/jedahan/index.html|::jedahan]]

<terminal>paludis --install gcstar</terminal>

===== Fedora =====

GCstar has been included in Fedora since version 7. It is in Fedora Extras for versions 5 and 6. So to install it on Fedora, just enter this command:

<terminal>yum install gcstar</terminal>

===== Gentoo =====

Ycarus added GCstar on [[http://gentoo.zugaina.org/app-misc.html.en|his Gentoo Ebuild website]].

You may also find up-to-date version (including 1.2.x series) in [[http://chown.dk/ebuilds/|this Ebuild repository]].

And finally, GCstar [[http://overlays.gentoo.org/svn/proj/sunrise/reviewed/app-misc/gcstar/|is in the Sunrise overlay]]. You can enable Sunrise using app-portage/layman. Just do <terminal>layman -a sunrise</terminal> and add (if you haven't done it already)
<file>source /usr/local/portage/layman/make.conf</file>
to the end of /etc/make.conf in order to make portage see the overlays managed by layman.


===== Mandriva =====

GCstar 1.1.1 is now available in the ''contrib'' urpmi media for Mandriva 2008.0. If the ''contrib'' media is not defined on your system yet, just use [[http://easyurpmi.zarb.org|Easy URPMI tool]] to get the required command. You can find GCstar in the Mandriva Control Center installation tool or use the command

<terminal>urpmi gcstar</terminal>

baud123 created an [[http://download.tuxfamily.org/cooker/mdvrpm/2007.0/noarch/gcstar-1.0.0-1mdv2007.0.noarch.rpm|RPM of GCstar 1.0.0 for Mandriva 2007]]. It could be installed once you downloaded it using this command:

<terminal>rpm -ivh gcstar-1.0.0-1mdv2007.0.noarch.rpm</terminal>




===== Ubuntu =====

On 7.04 Feisty Fawn and above, GCstar is included in the repository. But this version is not always up-to-date. A more recent version could be found on the official gcstar stable ppa :

https://launchpad.net/~gcstar/+archive/ppa

Below 7.04, this installs GCstar on Ubuntu:

<terminal>
sudo apt-get -y install libgtk2-perl libxml-perl libxml-simple-perl 
sudo apt-get -y install libarchive-tar-perl libarchive-zip-perl libmp3-info-perl libmp3-tag-perl libogg-vorbis-header-pureperl-perl
sudo apt-get clean
wget %%http://download.gna.org/gcstar/gcstar%%-[VERSION].tar.gz
tar zxf gcstar-[VERSION].tar.gz
rm gcstar-[VERSION].tar.gz
cd gcstar/
sudo ./install
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/share/gcstar/helpers/xdg-open
</terminal>

On 7.10 you might need these additional packages for a full featured version:
<terminal>
sudo apt-get -y install libgtk2-spell-perl libtime-piece-perl libdatetime-format-builder-perl
</terminal>

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===== Generic RPM =====

This RPM is a generic one that contains less features than the specific ones. It should be used with any RPM-based distributions.

[[http://download.gna.org/gcstar/Rpm/gcstar-[VERSION]-1.noarch.rpm|Download RPM GCstar [VERSION] ]]