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Installation

ZiK is still in development. Bugs are expected.

Packages

A debian package is disponible on rubyforge. It was tested on ubuntu 8.10. In order to play cd and extra file format, you should install the suggested packages.

Ubuntu

ZiK can be found in a Personal Package Archive repository for all distributions since Intrepid one. To install ZiK Type the following lines.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:vinc-mai/zik/ubuntu
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install zik

In order to play cd and extra file format, you should install zik with the suggested packages.

sudo aptitude --with-recommends install zik

Dependencies

mandatory

optional

modules

Cover

If you want to display cover saved in mp3 files tag you will need ruby-mp3info. The cover modules was tested with the 0.6.11 version. Cover module may not work with older version. A debian package of this version nammed libmp3info-ruby1.8 can be found here.

Notify

If you want to use system notifications instead of native ones install ruby-libnotify. ruby-libnotify is not in debian repository. You can find a debian package here.

Hotkeys

If you want to set global hotkeys you will need rghk. It can be downloaded here.

Gem

A gem is disponible on rubygems.org. To install ZiK type

gem install zik

Source code

Download ZiK on rubyforge.

Inflate the tarball.

tar xzvf ZiK-version.tar.gz
cd ZiK-version

Check the dependencies.

make check-dependecies

Compile.

./configure && make

Install ZiK as superuser if needed.

make install

For more details see the doc/README file.

Git

If you want to test the development version, install ZiK from the git repository.

git clone git://rubyforge.org/zik.git
cd zik
./configure && make
make install

Update ZiK

make uninstall
make distclean
git pull
./configure
make
make install