Single-user configuration

From VoxBoWiki

First, the short version. To install VoxBo, you need to:

• unpack the distribution
• rename the directory it creates to $HOME/voxbo
• add $HOME/voxbo/bin to your path

In general, all you really have to do is unpack it and make sure the binaries are in your path. The VoxBo distribution is in a gzipped tar file called something like

voxbo-1.8.tar.gz

Unpack it from within your home directory thusly:

tar xzvf voxbo-1.8.tar.gz

This will give you a directory called "voxbo-1.8". If you have an existing VoxBo directory in your home directory, you probably want to rename it so that you can give the new one the same name. Do something like:

mv voxbo oldvoxbo
mv voxbo-1.8 VoxBo

It helps some of the programs if they can find auxiliary files located in the distribution. So it's best if you call it voxbo, .voxbo, or VoxBo (all in your home directory), and it will be found automatically. If you like none of these options, you can set the environment variable VOXBO_USERDIR to wherever you want it, and all should be well.

You'll also want to make sure the VoxBo binaries (which start off in VoxBo/bin) are in your path. So either edit your shell startup file to add that directory to your path, or put the binaries somewhere that's already in your path. To get started immediately, you could just do something like this:

PATH=$PATH:~/voxbo

You're now ready to use VoxBo!