Chapter 2. Install notes

Table of Contents

Software Requirements
Download the sources
Compile and install
Configure /dev/i2c-* devices
Kernel configuration options
Installation on Debian (and derivatives)

Software Requirements

To compile and run DDCcontrol, you need to have these packages installed:

In addition to the library packages, you also need the development packages, which are not usually installed. For example, on Debian, their names are libxml2-dev and libgtk-3-dev. Other distributions probably have similar package names. On Fedora Core 5, you will also need gnome-panel-devel package.

Note

You only need PCI support if you explicitly enable the deprecated direct PCI memory access backend at configure time with --enable-legacy-pci or --enable-ddcpci. In that case, you will also need the PCI development package for your distribution, for example libpci-dev on Debian-based systems or pciutils-devel on Fedora/RHEL-based systems. You don't need gtk+ if you don't plan to use the Gnome GUI.


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