The Krab Handbook: Installation

Krabber
Version 0.4

2. Installation

2.1 How to obtain Krabber

Krabber can found at the KDE ftp-server. ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/1.0/apps/multimedia/. (not yet)
A homepage is hosted by tripod .

2.2 Requirements

To use all features of Krabber you must have the above applications in your PATH:

cdparanoia: Is needed for grabbing. tested with III alpha prerelease 9.4 . CDDA Paranoia Homepage.
mpg123: to decode mp2 or mp3 files. mpg123 site
8hz-mp3: to encode mp3 files. 8hz homepage
bladeenc: to encode mp3 files. blade homepage
if you are rich enough: l3enc: A COMMERCIAL mp3 encoder. Opticom Homepage
mp3enc: A COMMERCIAL mp3 encoder too. Opticom Homepage
and a KDE Desktop !

2.3 Compilation and installation

In order to compile and install Krabber on your system, type the following in the base directory of the Krabber distribution:

% ./configure
% make
% make install

Since Krabber uses autoconf you should have not trouble compiling it. Should you run into problems please report them to the the author at krabber@gmx.de

You must setup cdparanoia ( and maybe cdda2wav ) with
chown root.root cdparanoia
chmod 6777 cdparanoia
to enable the access to your cd-rom device.

alternative you can do
chmod 0777 /dev/sg1 (to enable access on your second SCSI device), or
chmod 0777 /dev/hdc (to enable access on the master IDE device on the second channel)

2.4 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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