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Work In Progress - Linux drivers for (A)RGB peripherals
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Installation process in README #3

Closed twifty closed 4 years ago

twifty commented 4 years ago

Trust me I know exactly how you feel. I always had update problems with Gnome, ended up switching to KDE.

To install this package, open a terminal (your home directory will be fine).

mkdir github
cd github
git clone https://github.com/twifty/lights.git
cd lights
make install

The above will create a directory in your home folder ~/github/lights/build/ containing two kernel modules. The modules will be temporarily installed. They will be removed when you reboot. Please post the output of make install.

Please put information about common installation process into README

Originally posted by @ink-ru in https://github.com/twifty/lights/issues/1#issuecomment-570036890

twifty commented 4 years ago

The README has a section for installation.

The project in its current form is not in a suitable state to be used by the general public. I don't want to be holding the hands of people who don't know how to run makefiles and/or install extra kernel modules. This type of user will typically open an issue with something like "It doesn't work" and have no idea about how to provide debugging and reproducible steps.

When the project comes out of this alpha state, then the README will be updated.