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 Link Monitor Applet installation instructions
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Index

	0. About this document
	1. Requirements
	2. Instructions

0. About this document

	$Id: INSTALL,v 1.2 2004/10/08 23:42:08 jylefort Exp $

	Copyright (c) 2004 Jean-Yves Lefort.

	This document is part of Link Monitor Applet. It may be
	distributed under the same terms as Link Monitor Applet.

1. Requirements

	Link Monitor Applet requires the following libraries:

		* GTK+ (version 2.4.0 or superior)
		  http://www.gtk.org/

		* GNOME (version 2.6.0 or superior)
		  http://www.gnome.org/

2. Instructions

	Link Monitor Applet uses the well-known GNU build
	system. Hence, the following usual sequence will probably
	satisfy most users:

		$ ./configure --prefix=/usr
		$ make
		<get root privileges>
		$ make install

	IMPORTANT:

		* You must install Link Monitor Applet in the same
		  prefix as GNOME (commonly /usr or /opt/gnome). To
		  know where GNOME is installed on your system, type:

			$ pkg-config --variable prefix libgnome-2.0

		* The install phase will enable the setuid bit on the
		  link-monitor-applet binary (root privileges are
		  needed to create the ICMP and ICMPv6 sockets upon
		  applet startup; they will be dropped after that
		  step), therefore you need to run the install phase
		  as root.

		* Due to a bug in bonobo-activation
		  (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151082),
		  your session must be restarted after installing Link
		  Monitor Applet.

	The ./configure script behaviour can be changed using
	command-line options: type "./configure --help" for an
	exhaustive list.
