At the time of writing there were two majors versions of LCDproc floating around on the Internet. LCDproc 0.5.2 LCDproc 0.5.2 is the current stable version of LCDproc. This is the version recommended to use. LCDproc 0.5.1 LCDproc 0.5.1 is the old stable version of LCDproc. It was the second stable version of LCDproc after the move to the 0.5 API. It now has been superseeded with LCDproc 0.5.2. There are nightly distributions of the CVS branches of LCDproc. You can download them from To extract the files run either $ tar xvfz lcdproc-CVS-*.tar.gz or $ bunzip2 -c lcdproc-CVS-*.tar.bz2 | tar xv Of course you can download the latest stuff from CVS via anonymous login. Login to CVS: $ cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@lcdproc.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/lcdproc login (Hit enter when prompted for a password.) Get the files from CVS: $ cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@lcdproc.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/lcdproc checkout -r stable-0-5-x lcdproc Once you've done that and want to update the downloaded files to the latest stuff you can use the "update" command of CVS (Make sure to be in the lcdproc directory.): $ cvs update -d Now that you have downloaded the files you can prepare them for compiling, but first you should (you don't have to) copy them to another place on your machine: Debian GNU/Linux users can get the Debian package of LCDproc, which is in the unstable and testing distributions. Provided apt-get is configured properly, you should be able to install the package running: $ su Password: top secret # apt-get install lcdproc