tkjuke Installation Instructions

This software requires Perl/Tk, and obviously, mtx.

• mtx

  Tested with mtx versions 1.2.9, 1.2.10, 1.2.15 and 1.2.17, 1.2.18rel.

• Perl

  Perl is likely already installed on your system. If not, you can fetch it from:

http://www.cpan.org/src/stable.tar.gz

Briefly, installation goes like this:

        tar -zxvpf stable.tar.gz
        cd perl-5.8.2
        sh Configure -des -Dprefix=/usr/local
        make
        make test
        make install

• Perl/Tk (using the perl executable from above in /usr/local/bin)

  Get it from:

http://search.cpan.org/~ni-s/Tk-804.027/

Briefly, installation goes like this:

        tar -zxvpf Tk804.027.tar.gz
        cd Tk804.027
        /usr/local/bin/perl Makefile.PL
        make
        make test
        make install

• Proc::ProcessTable, Tk::ExecuteCommand and Tk::CollapsableFrame modules

  Fetch from CPAN and install in the standard manner:

        /usr/local/bin/perl Makefile.PL
        make
        make test
        make install

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

At this point, edit tkjuke.config and make entries for your jukeboxes using the example entries as a guide - tkjuke will auto-connect to the listed machines. If you have not setup either host-based or key authentication the you'll need to enter the root passwords in the window from which tkjuke was started.

The program "wait-tape-ready" defines a system command that ensures media is ready after it has been loaded into a DTE. The basic idea is to status the drive until it is ready.

IFF you experience tape-not-ready errors, or long delays after a "juke load" or "juke next" command, you must inspect this code and make appropriate changes. The code comments in "wait-tape-ready" tell you what to do. Please, send any changes to sol0@lehigh.edu.

OK, juke/tkjuke installation and configuration is complete. Have the appropriate amount of fun.

Steve Lidie
Lehigh University Computing Center
sol0@lehigh.edu

2004/01/14
2006/03/21
2007/07/20