HOWTO: Install recordMyDesktop!

This is how to compile the cvs version of recordMyDesktop. I am using 64Studio 2.1 64-bit

First lets install all necessary packages (make sure backports are enabled)

$ sudo apt-get install cvs automake1.7 xorg-dev libice-dev libsm-dev libxext-dev libxdamage-dev libxfixes-dev libogg-dev libvorbis-dev libtheora-dev

Now lets download the source via cvs. First Login using

$ cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@recordmydesktop.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/recordmydesktop login

Now we can download. Note you can swap gtk-recordmydesktop for qt-desktop if you want (if your using KDE).

$ cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@recordmydesktop.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/recordmydesktop co -P recordmydesktop gtk-recordmydesktop

Lets install recordmydesktop first

$ cd recordmydesktop $ sh autogen.sh $ ./configure

If everything looks fine go ahead and do

$ sudo make

Pray you get no errors!

$ sudo make install

Now lets install the gnome frontend gtk-recordmydesktop

$ cd ../gtk-recordmydesktop

Same process as before

$ sh autogen.sh $ ./configure $ sudo make $ sudo make install

Now run in terminal

$ gtk-recordMyDesktop

Voila!

To record sound through Jack go to Advanced -> Sound tab and check "Use Jack for audio capture" and Ctrl click for multiple entries.

Happy capturing. :)