Getting EKG2

Distribution-specific packages

Many distros can have EKG2 in standard repos, but probably only 'stable' releases or very old snapshots. You'd probably like to use newer version instead. Below is a list of distro-specific, officially appreciated by authors packages. If your distro isn't listed below, you'll probably have to build EKG2 yourself, alien other distro's package or install portage.

Gentoo Linux

Official SVN ekg2 Gentoo ebuild can be found in  emdzientoo overlay. To add it easily: 

layman -fo http://svn.mgorny.i-rpg.net/emdzientoo/trunk/layman.xml -a emdzientoo

Microsoft® Windows®

Currently support of Microsoft® Windows® systems is very limited. You'd probably want to run EKG2 on some POSIX shell and use SSH instead.

You can also try these EKG2 builds:

Fetching fresh sources

Directly from SVN

svn co http://toxygen.net/svn/ekg2/trunk ekg2

Official snapshots

If you don't want to install subversion or have limited disk space, you may also download snapshot generated every midnight from download page.

The snapshots are generated using autotools, thus contain limited amount of files.

Unofficial snapshots

More complete snapshots can be also found in  mgorny's snapshots.

Compiling using autotools

Autotools is basic, officially supported method of compiling EKG2.

Compiling snapshot

If you've downloaded EKG2 source snapshot, then all hard work has been already performed for you. You'll just have to run: 

./configure <CONFIGURE_OPTS>
make
make install

To get info on configure options, use: 

./configure --help

Compiling SVN

You'll have to have full autotools set installed (aclocal, autoconf, automake), gettext with 'autopoint' and libtool with 'libtoolize'. If 'autopoint' is unavailable (it required cvs installed, don't ask us why), autogen.sh will try to use 'gettextize' instead, but it may fail and is unsupported. 

./autogen.sh <CONFIGURE_OPTS>
make
make install

If you don't want autogen.sh to run configure, use: 

NOCONFIGURE=1 ./autogen.sh

Compiling using SCons

SCons is alternative build system for EKG2, meant to be simpler, more intelligent, smaller and faster. It is not accepted by most developers, but is fully supported.

To use SCons you'll have to install scons >=0.97 and python >=2.4. If anyone really needs support for older Python versions, please let us know. Older SCons version won't be supported. 

scons <SCONS_OPTIONS>
scons install

To get more info, use: 

scons --help

in EKG2 sources directory. Note that --help, unlike -H will list all available options.