Requirements: mBox requires these (working..) python bindings: wxPython 2.6.0.0 (GTK port) or newer, available at http://www.wxpython.org note: it won't work if you don't have wxGTK installed, it's available at http://www.wxwindows.org Python 2.2, older version might work but haven't been tested, available at http://www.python.org pyogg and pyvorbis packages, available at http://www.andrewchatham.com/pyogg mBox will complain, if one of them fails to load so you know which package is broken. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Run-Time dependencies: mBox scans through directories in your PATH variable to look for these programs: Lame, an excellent audio compressor, available at http://lame.sourceforge.net Vorbis-Tools, tools for using the Ogg Vorbis sound file format, available at http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/index.html note: actually, you need only oggenc binary, which comes with this package Mplayer, no need to comment though, available at http://www.mplayerhq.hu If one of them is nowhere to be found, mBox will write text to stdout and start with appropiate features disabled. If you're sure that you have program which mBox didn't find installed, then link its binary to one of dirictories obtained by running: echo $PATH | sed -e 's#:#\n#g' ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Installation: Because example is worth more than thousand words, here we go: 1) Download mBox source. 2) Extract tarball and cd to it: tar xjf mBox-0.1.0.tar.bz2 cd mBox-0.1.0/ 3) run python interpreter to install the package: su -c 'python setup.py install' if you're privileged user, than you don't have to use su, otherwise you'll be asked for root password. 4) run mBox and enjoy! =) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Platforms supported: mBox should work on any unix/unix-like platform where required packages works. As far as i have tested, it works on *BSD,Sun Solaris 9 and Linux