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.

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

apt-get install gcstar

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:

yum install gcstar

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 Easy URPMI tool to get the required command. You can find GCstar in the Mandriva Control Center installation tool or use the command

urpmi gcstar

baud123 created am RPM of GCstar 1.0.0 for Mandriva 2007. It could be installed once you downloaded it using this command:

rpm -ivh gcstar-1.0.0-1mdv2007.0.noarch.rpm

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:

pacman -S gcstar

Ycarus added GCstar on his Gentoo Ebuild website.

You may also find up-to-date version (including 1.2.x series) in this Ebuild repository.

And finally, GCstar is in the Sunrise overlay. You can enable Sunrise using app-portage/layman. Just do

layman -a sunrise

source /usr/portage/local/layman/make.conf

to the end of /etc/make.conf in order to make portage see the overlays managed by layman.

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

Download RPM GCstar 1.4.2

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 getdeb :

http://www.getdeb.net/app/GCstar

Below 7.04, this installs GCstar on Ubuntu:

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-1.4.2.tar.gz
tar zxf gcstar-1.4.2.tar.gz
rm gcstar-1.4.2.tar.gz
cd gcstar/
sudo ./install
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/share/gcstar/helpers/xdg-open

On 7.10 you might need these additional packages for a full featured version:

sudo apt-get -y install libgtk2-spell-perl libtime-piece-perl libdatetime-format-builder-perl

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An other solution is to use the Lone-Wolf repository (http://falcon.landure.fr). Here is the how-to (in english and french):

http://howto.landure.fr/gnu-linux/ubuntu-feisty-fawn-1/software-for-ubuntu-feisty-fawn/gcstar-on-ubuntu-feisty-fawn/view?set_language=en