Downloading gcompris
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Windows
For windows, you have to download the file gcompris-X.X-setup.exe. Save it on your hard drive and double click on it. Then follow the instructions (next, next, …)
Binary packages for other systems
The last version of gcompris can be found on sourceforge. The last version of assetml packages (audio file) can be found on.
gcompris packages on sourceforge are created on Mandrake Linux 9.2. It may or may not work if you try to install them on your current distribution. If you have some problem running the latest gcompris version, you can find one, pre-packaged for your distribution in the list bellow.
| System | Find binaries |
|---|---|
| Mandrake 9.2 | Sourceforge |
| Debian | Usual repository, use apt-get |
| Fedora Core 1 | http://yum.bravegnuworld.com/yum/fc/1/RPMS.bgw/ |
| Fedora Core 2 | http://yum.bravegnuworld.com/yum/fc/2/RPMS.bgw/ |
| RedHat 9 | http://yum.bravegnuworld.com/yum/fc/1/RPMS.bgw/ |
| Yellow Dog 3 | http://yum.bravegnuworld.com/yum/yd/3/RPMS.bgw/ |
| FreeBSD | http://www.freshports.org/games/gcompris2/ |
| Gentoo | http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=games-kids;name=gcompris |
| Lindows | http://www.lindows.com/lindows_products_details.php?id=1881 |
| Mandrake | http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=gcompris&submit=Search+... |
| Suse | http://packman.links2linux.org/?action=243 |
| Slackware | http://www.linuxpackages.net/pkg_details.php?id=4231 |
| MacOSX | http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/package.php/gcompris |
Dependancies
- First, pick up the latest gcompris.
- Assetml data (minimum you need the assetml-flags) from ofset.
- Optionnaly you can get one of these, if there is one in your locale (from ofset):
- assetml-voices-alphabet
- assetml-voices-colors
- assetml-voices-geography
- assetml-voices-misc
Installation from the source code
Download the archive gcompris-X.X.tar.gz then:- tar -xvf gcompris-X.X.tar.gz
- cd gcompris-X.X
- sh configure
- Analyse, the errors, install the missing dependancies. Often you will have to install the -devel packages on your distribution. You will need SDL, SDL_Mixer, GTK, gnome-canvas, gnome-python, gnome-python-canvas)
- make
- make install