Compiling FahMon for Linux

Prerequisites

In order to compile FahMon for Linux you need to have the following software installed:

• A C++ compiler. gcc-c++ (g++) is the usual one for most Linux distros
• The wxGTK (Unicode) libraries and development headers. Version 2.8.0 is the minimum version required. (For info on how to compile without unicode support see #143)

The simplest way to install the above software is to open your package manager and search for the software to install if you don't already know the package names.

Steps to compile

You normally only need to issue 3 commands after navigating to the source folder in a terminal

• ./configure optionally you can include a prefix parameter, which affects the install location

If this doesn't complete successfully, check the errors, which will usually be about a missing package. If it worked, continue:

• make this will take a while as it compiles the source. No errors should occur. Ignore any warnings.

You now need to login as root to install. Different distros have different ways of achieving this. So either:

• sudo make install

OR

• su -c make install

Running FahMon

The make install process should have installed a menu icon, although for some distros this doesn't appear (submit a bug report if it doesn't). FahMon can also be run from a terminal or from a run dialog with the command fahmon Note: There is no longer a need to create a startup script to run FahMon as there was for previous versions.