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Compiling Firestarter from CVS

The following section is intended for testers, developers and users seeking the most bleeding-edge code available.

CVS releases of Firestarter are not stable, release quality code. If you are interested in obtaining the latest, stable release - you can download a tarball of the source code from the Firestarter homepage.

If you are feeling adventurous you can checkout the most recent Firestarter sources from the GNOME CVS server. Here are the commands you need to enter in a terminal:

[bash]$ export CVSROOT=':pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.gnome.org:/cvs/gnome'
[bash]$ cvs login
(Logging in to anonymous@cvs.firestarter.sourceforge.net)
CVS password:

Simply press enter here, there is no password.

[bash]$ cvs -z3 checkout firestarter

The source code will be downloaded to the 'firestarter' subdirectory. To compile, change to the 'firestarter' subdirectory and type the following commands:

[bash]$ ./autogen.sh
[bash]$ make

If all goes well, su to root and type:

[bash]$ make install

Bringing a CVS version up to date

If you already have a recent CVS Firestarter checkout from the CVS server at Sourceforge - You can simply enter the following commands to update it to the current version.

[bash]$ cd [copy_of_current_CVS_source_code]/
[bash]$ export CVSROOT=':pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.gnome.org:/cvs/gnome'
[bash]$ cvs login
(Logging in to anonymous@cvs.firestarter.sourceforge.net)
CVS password:

Again, simply press enter here, there is no password.

[bash]$ cvs -z3 update -Pd firestarter

The CVS repository can also be browsed online.

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