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5. Installing libggi

  1. Before attempting to install libggi, make sure you have met the following requirements. You may compile the ggilib-dynamic without multithread support, but some features may be missing then.
  2. Change over to the "lib/libggi" directory.
  3. Run "make config" This will bring up a configuration menu. You can choose whether you want to use multithreading or not and you can select several display targets, i.e. LibGGI can display in an X window or using the kernel KGI driver for instance. Leave the menu with EXIT.
  4. Run "make" This will compile the library.
  5. Run "make install" as root.
  6. Now drop the root rights. You don't need them anymore.
  7. "cd demos" and "make" there. This will compile some demos.

Now you can try the demos available in the "demos" subdir. These will show you some capabilities of libggi. Except for execution permission and access permission to the /dev/graph?? files no other rights, especially no SUID root is required.

If you can run the demos, you have successfully installed GGI, and now you may play with it. You probably want to install XGGI, which can be obtained from the ftp site

Have a lot of fun,

The GGI Project Team


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