Installation

Windows

On Windows, using the official Windows installation program is recommended. If you want to build your own installer, see Windows Installer.

Install on OSX

We are not currently distributing an installer for OSX. Instead, you must install Exaile via Homebrew. For more details, see the homebrew-exaile <https://github.com/exaile/homebrew-exaile> repo.

Linux/*nix

Note

First you should install dependencies that are listed in the DEPS file.

On *nix-based systems (but not OSX), run the following command from the source code directory to install:

$ make
# make install

The “make” step is optional and only compiles the modules and translations.

You can run make all_no_locale and make install_no_locale instead if you wish to build and install without translations.

To uninstall exaile please run:

# make uninstall

from the same directory.

Environment Variables

Note: normally it should be enough to set PREFIX, and potentially LIBINSTALLDIR on a 64-bit system. The additional variables can provide further installation customization.

Environment variables that affect “make install”:

LIBINSTALLDIR

The full path to the lib directory. Default: EPREFIX/lib

DATADIR

The full path to non-architecture dependent data files. Default: PREFIX/share

MANPREFIX

The full path to the parent of the man page installation directory (same as system DATADIR) Default: PREFIX/share

EPREFIX

The executable installation prefix. Default: PREFIX

PREFIX

The main installation prefix. Default: /usr/local Note: If this default is changed, you may need to set the LIBINSTALLDIR or XDG_DATA_DIRS environment variables to include the changed path. See [1].

XDGCONFDIR

The directory to install system-wide config files in, following xdg spec. Default: /etc/xdg Note: If this default is changed, you may need to set the XDG_CONFIG_DIRS environment variable to include the changed path. See [1].

DESTDIR

Destination directory to put the file structure under. Mainly of use for packagers. Default: not set (/)

DEFAULTARGS

Default arguments that the ‘exaile’ launcher script (installed to $PREFIX/bin/exaile) will pass to exaile on startup

Additional Resources: 1. XDG Base Directory Specification