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    FreetuxTV
    =========

    FreetuxTV is a WebTV player working on the Linux platform based on GTK2+ and LibVLC.

    Features :
      - Play TV (Free, SFR and WebTV)
      - Play in full screen mode
      - Play in miniature Mode
      - Support for multimedia keys
      - Add new groups of channels from M3U playlists 


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

    - gtk+ (>= 2.12.0)
    - glib (>= 2.16.0)
    - dbus-glib-1 (>= 0.74)
    - libsqlite3 (>= 3.4.0)
    - libvlc (>= 0.8.6)
    - libcurl (>= 7.18.0)
    - libnotify (>= 0.4)

    Report bugs at
    ==============

    http://code.google.com/p/freetuxtv/issues/list


    Installing FreetuxTV
    ====================

    1) Get the tarball from FreetuxTV website
    2) Copy it in your home directory
    3) Untar it:
        $> tar xvzf freetuxtv-<version>.tar.gz
    4) Enter the new folder
        $> cd freetuxtv-<version>
    5) Run the configure script (you can see options with - help)
        $> ./configure --prefix=/usr
    6) Install FreetuxTV
        $> make install
       or use sudo to run it as root
        $> sudo make install
    7) Run FreetuxTV
        $> freetuxtv


    Uninstalling FreetuxTV
    ======================

    1) Uninstalling the program
        $> make uninstall
    2) Uninstall your profile
        $> rm -rf ~/.config/FreetuxTV


    Installing from SVN repository
    ==============================

    1) Install needed packages to compile according to your distribution
      a) Ubuntu
        $> sudo apt-get install subversion gcc make autoconf automake intltool libtool gettext libgtk-3-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev libsqlite3-0 libsqlite3-dev libcurl3 libcurl4-openssl-dev vlc libvlc-dev libnotify-dev
      b) Mandriva Linux
        $> su root
        $> urpmi subversion gcc autoconf automake make gettext-devel libgtk+2.0_0-devel vlc libvlc-devel libsqlite3-devel libcurl-devel libnotify-devel
        $> exit
      c) openSUSE
        $> su root
        $> zypper install subversion gcc autoconf automake make gettext-tools gtk2-devel vlc vlc-devel sqlite3-devel libcurl-devel dbus-1-glib-devel libnotify-devel
        $> exit
    2) Get FreetuxTV sources from the SVN
        $> svn checkout http://freetuxtv.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ freetuxtv-read-only
        $> cd freetuxtv-read-only
    3) Compile it
        $> ./autogen.sh
        $> ./configure --prefix=/usr
        $> make
        $> sudo make install
    4) Watch TV
        $> freetuxtv