IglooFTP - Graphical and User Friendly FTP Client ================================================= INSTALLATION ============= NOTE : IglooFTP was only tested under Linux, but it may run under other Unices. Successful reports are welcome. (will not compile on Solaris) You *MUST* have root privileges to INSTALL IglooFTP Make, Install and Uninstall scripts are provided for your convenience. In most case you will only have to run them. STEP #1 : Building IglooFTP --------------------------- ( Only required if you have the source distribution. If you have the binary distribution you can jump to step #2) - You must have GTK+ installed in order to run this program. GTK+ Versions prior to 1.1.x will NOT work. Recommanded version is 1.2.1 - GTK can be found at : ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk - Look for any information about GTK at : http://www.gtk.org - To know what version of GTK you have installed: % gtk-config --version To build IglooFTP: `cd' to the directory containing the package's source code and type: % make This will start the compilation process. Note that gcc may report some warnings. Don't worry about them. Only worry if gcc returns an error code. At this step you can verify that an IglooFTP excutable have been created by typing : % ls STEP #2 : Installing IglooFTP ------------------------------ Type : % make install Note that you can uninstall it at any moment by typing: % make uninstall (By default, IglooFTP will be installed in /usr/local/bin But if you got the RedHat Package, it will be installed in /usr/X11R6/bin ) STEP #3 : running IglooFTP --------------------------- Run IglooFTP like any other X-Windows program. No argument is required. STEP #4 : Reporting Bugs ;) ----------------------------- to know how to report bugs please refer to the README file