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Installing beep

This document describes how to install beep from sources and how to set up the system afterwards.

If you are using beep as shipped in a distribution package, the package should have done most of those steps for you. The notable exception should be adding users to the beep group.

Compile and Install

The easy way is

$ make
$ make install

By default, it'll put the executable beep in /usr/bin. If you don't like this, change the common variables as appropriate, e.g.

$ make prefix=$HOME/.local
$ make prefix=$HOME/.local install

or

$ make
$ make DESTDIR=$PWD/__installroot install

For the complete list of those variables, see the top of GNUmakefile.

Some more compilation related variables mostly useful for distribution packagers are documented in PACKAGING.md.

System configuration

  • Add a line

    alias platform:pcspkr pcspkr

    to a file like e.g. /etc/modprobe.d/pcspkr-beep.conf.

  • Set up the udev rules to set the device special file permissions for non-root users according to PERMISSIONS.md.