Innotop is easy to install. Follow one of the methods below. ===== YOUR DISTRIBUTION'S PACKAGE At this time, innotop is included in the following distributions: * FreeBSD * Gentoo GNU/Linux * Ubuntu and Debian * RPM packages for many platforms can be found at the openSUSE buildservice: * http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:/database/Fedora_Extras_5/ * http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:/database/Fedora_Extras_6/ * http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:/database/openSUSE_10.2/ * http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:/database/openSUSE_Factory/ * http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:/database/SLES_9/ * http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:/database/SLE_10/ * http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:/database/SUSE_Linux_10.0/ * http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:/database/SUSE_Linux_10.1/ If you want to contribute a package, please contact us about it. ===== INSTALL FROM A TARBALL If you install from the tarball, extract the tarball and go into the resulting directory: tar zxvf innotop-<version>.tar.gz cd innotop-<version> Generate the makefile, which will check Perl module dependencies and so forth: perl Makefile.PL Install the program and man page: make install To remove the files, simply run: make uninstall ===== BUILD AN INSTALLABLE RPM If your system is RPM-based, you can generate an installable RPM directly from the tarball with the following command: rpmbuild -tb --clean innotop-<version>.tar.gz You can then install that RPM via your usual means (varies by distribution). ===== ON MICROSOFT WINDOWS I have tested installation with ActivePerl 5.8.8. Use the Perl Package Manager tool to install Time-HiRes, DBD-mysql, Term-ANSIColor, Win32::Console::ANSI, and Term-ReadLine. These aren't absolutely required, but they make it much easier to use innotop! If your installation doesn't have it already, Term-ReadKey and List::Util are *required* as well. These are part of the standard distribution unless you're running a very old version of Perl. After that, simply unpack the zip or tarball file from Google Code and run innotop from within a command prompt. The only files you need are innotop. C:\> cd Path\To\Innotop\Installation\ C:\> perl innotop