Installing from Source

If your distribution doesn't provide a package of Cowbell, you'll have to install Cowbell and (possibly) its dependencies from source.

First, make sure you have all your dependencies installed. You'll need Mono, Gtk# and TagLib.

Now, grab either a Release Tarball, or grab a copy from Cowbell's subversion archive:

$ svn co svn://svn.gnome.org/svn/cowbell/trunk cowbell

Use the Source Luke!

Cowbell uses a standard autotools build environment, so if you've ever compiled a package from source, doing the same two-step for Cowbell will be very similar.

If you've downloaded Cowbell from a release tarball:

$ ./configure --prefix=/usr

If you're installing a development version of Cowbell:

$ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr

Then, just make and make install as usual.

$ make

--get root here--

# make install

And enjoy!