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## 2. Installation

## 2.1 How to obtain Tuxtype

Tux Typing can be obtained from the Tux Typing homepage at http://www.tux4kids.org/dm/tuxtype/. There you can obtain source code and binary distributions of Tux Typing.

## 2.2 Requirements

(The following is a rough estimate, anyone care to test this software out and give me better numbers?)
Tux Typing requires a computer with the following hardware as a minimum:

- 200 Mhz Pentium class CPU
- 32 Megs of RAM
- 2 Megs Video RAM
- 80 Megs of Hard Drive space (if downloading the entire source code as well as installing binaries)
- Keyboard and Mouse

However, it is recommended that you have at least:

- 300 Mhz Pentium II clase CPU
- 64 Megs of RAM
- 4 Megs Video RAM
- 80 Megs of Hard Drive space
- Keyboard and Mouse

Tux Typing also requires the latest stable version of SDL: Simple Direct Media Layer library as well as SDL_Mixer and SDL_Image (also available from the SDL web-site).

## 2.3 Compilation and installation

In order to compile and install Tux Typing on your system, as root (superuser) type the following in the base directory of the Tuxtype distribution:

> `

>     % ./configure
>     % make
>     % make install

> `

Since Tux Typing uses

    autoconf

you should have not trouble compiling it. Should you run into problems please report them to the the author at Sam Hart

If you obtained a binary distribution of Tux Typing (eg, in a format such as RPM or DEB) then please consult your documentation on how to install such packages on your system.

## 2.3 Installing Optional Themes

As of version 1.0pre1, Tux Typing has support for optional themes. These themes can be anything from alternative language support to alternative graphic themes or word files. Over the 1.1-1.2 development cycle we plan on finalizing this theme support, however, for now you can utilize themes via the command line.

To install a new theme, you first must obtain a theme from:

> http://www.tux4kids.org/dm/tuxtype/themes/

This theme will come in the form of a ZIP file.

Uncompress this ZIP file using whatever compression utility your OS supports, and place the directory contents inside your Tux Typing data directory. On Unix systems this is typically /usr/local/share/tuxtype/ or /usr/share/tuxtype/ whereas on Win32 and BeOS it is whereever you installed Tux Typing.

Once you have installed the theme, you activate the theme by running Tux Typing with the "--theme" or "-t" options. For example, if I had installed the theme "french" on my system, I would activate this theme with the following command line:

>     tuxtype --theme french

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