BUILD / INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS ================================= First and foremost, if you use Debian or a derived distribution try first the upstream packages found at the project's homepage . Or try building a deb package yourself ($ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot) Building ======== Run the included script "dist", this should create the missing files needed to prepare the configuration. If some tool required to build is missing it should also point it. $ ./dist The follow the usual GNU build instructions: $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local $ make # make install