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8 changes: 4 additions & 4 deletions README
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Expand Up @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ If you compile Gpredict from source you will also need the development packages
often with -dev or -devel in the package name, e.g. libgtk-3-dev. On Debian and
Ubuntu systems you can install the build dependencies using:

sudo apt install libtool intltool autoconf automake libcurl4-openssl-dev
sudo apt install dh-autoreconf intltool libcurl4-openssl-dev make
sudo apt install pkg-config libglib2.0-dev libgtk-3-dev libgoocanvas-2.0-dev


Expand All @@ -50,17 +50,17 @@ To build and install gpredict from source, first unpack the source package:
Then change to the gpredict-x.y.z directory and build gpredict:

./configure
make
make -j$(( $(nproc) + 1))
make install

The last step usually requires you to become root, otherwise you may not have
the required permissions to install gpredict. If you can not or do not want to
install gpredict as root, you can install gpredict into a custom directory by
adding --prefix=somedir to the ./configure step. For example

./configure --prefix=/home/user/predict
./configure --prefix="$HOME/predict"

will configure the build to install the files into /home/user/gpredict folder.
will configure the build to install the files into /home/user/predict folder.
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will configure the build to install the files into /home/user/predict folder.
will configure the build to install the files into $HOME/predict folder.

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Main question is. Install the files into /home/user/gpredict folder or predict folder?

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@AsciiWolf any news?

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Sorry, but I am not sure what the correct folder is. This is a question for @csete.


If you are building directly from the git repository, you have to run
./autogen.sh instead of of configure. You can pass the same options to the
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