# Installation instructions ## Windows Download section offers two packages: an MSI installer and a ZIP archive. To install Spek, download the MSI installer, double-click it and follow the instructions. If you don't want to use the installer, you can download the ZIP archive, unpack it somewhere on your disk and run `Spek\spek.exe`. ## Mac OS X Spek for Mac OS X is available in the download section. Download and open the DMG package, then drag the Spek icon to Applications. Spek requires OS X 10.5+ and an Intel-based Mac. ## *BSD and GNU/Linux ### Binary packages * Arch: [spek](http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=38001) and [spek-git](http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37252) * Debian: [spek](http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=spek) * Fedora: [RPMFusion package](https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1718) * FreeBSD: [audio/spek](http://www.freshports.org/audio/spek/) * Gentoo: [media-sound/spek](http://packages.gentoo.org/package/media-sound/spek) * Ubuntu: [spek](http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=spek) ### Building from the tarball To build Spek, download the source code tarball then run these commands from terminal: tar -xvf spek-0.8.2.tar.xz cd spek-0.8.2 ./configure make To build you will need wxWidgets and FFmpeg packages. On Debian/Ubuntu you also need development packages: libwxgtk2.8-dev, wx-common, libavcodec-dev and libavformat-dev. To start Spek, run: src/spek Or install it with: sudo make install ### Building from the git repository git clone git://github.com/alexkay/spek.git cd spek /autogen.sh make