#***Descritpion. ZiK is audio player. It is written in ruby and use gstreamer to play audio file. ZiK is release under GPL v2 license (see the doc/COPYNG file).

#***Dependencies. To run ZiK you will need: ruby-gtk2 ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/ librsvg librsvg.sourceforge.net/ ruby-gstreamer ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/ gst-plugins-base gstreamer.freedesktop.org/ ruby-taglib www.hakubi.us/ruby-taglib/ ruby-gettext-package rubyforge.org/projects/gettext/

For cd support, you will need: mb-ruby pablotron.org/software/mb-ruby/ gst-plugins-good gstreamer.freedesktop.org/ gst-plugins-ugly gstreamer.freedesktop.org/

For other format suppport (ie: mp3,wav), check gstreamer plug-ins: gst-plugins-* gstreamer.freedesktop.org/

For modules: cover -> ruby-mp3info rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-mp3info/ notify -> ruby-libnotify ruby-libnotify.rubyforge.org/ hotkeys -> rghk zik.rubyforge.org/rghk/

You can use check the dependencies by running (after running the configure script): make check-depend

#***Installation. You can use the usual ./configure && make && make install. #Unpack the tarball. tar xvzf ZiK-version.tar.gz #Go to the source directory. cd ZiK-version #Configure. ./configure #Compile. make #Install as superuser if needed. make install For more options see INSTALL file.

#***Uninstallation. make uninstall

#***website zik.rubyforge.org/

#***Thanks. My thanks to all ruby programmers and documentation writers. Thanks to the T1000-tag project who allows ZiK to use its musicip id. I also thank: Draco, Mouine89, l e . n o x, mathieuI who test the development (git) version. www.developpez.net/forums menbers for theirs help. All ubuntu users and especially the unbuntu-fr community.