Requirements
============

To use Grip, you must have:

 o The Gnome desktop
 o POSIX thread support (http://pauillac.inria.fr/~xleroy/linuxthreads)
 o a net connection (if you want to use disc database lookup)
 o a CD player (surprise, surprise)

Grip requires that you have at least a basic version of the Gnome desktop
installed on your computer. In particular, make sure that you have libghttp
installed.

If you wish to have builtin cdparanoia support, or id3v2 support, you must
have the appropriate packages on your system. You can find them here:

 cdparanoia: http://xiph.org/paranoia/index.html
 id3v2: http://id3lib.sourceforge.net/

Grip is designed to work closely with DigitalDJ, an SQL-based mp3 jukebox
system (although it does not require it).


Installation
============

If you obtained Grip from an RPM or DEB file, then they are already
installed. If you have the source distribution, you need to compile it.

To install Grip, simply go through the following steps:

 o after unpacking Grip, cd to the extracted directory
 o './configure'
 o 'make'
 o become root if you are installing in a non-user directory
 o 'make install'

For information on options to the configure process, run:

  ./configure --help

Grip adds the following options that can be specified to configure:

  --disable-shared-cdpar  -- This will force Grip to link statically, rather
                             than dynamically with cdparanoia

  --disable-cdpar         -- This disable linking with cdparanoia entirely

  --disable-shared-id3    -- This will force Grip to link statically, rather
                             than dynamically with id3lib

Note that if Gnome is installed in a non-standard place (such as /opt), you
may need to use the '--with-gnome' configure option for all libraries to be
found correctly.
