Chapter 2. Installation
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Development Build.
The development build is built at each change to the Rockbox
source code repository and represents the current state of Rockbox development.
This means that the build could contain bugs but most of the time is safe to use.
For a manual install, you can download the current build from
http://build.rockbox.
org/
.
Archived Build.
In addition to the release version and the current build, there is also
an archive of daily builds available for download. These are built once a day from
the latest source code in the repository. For a manual install, you can download
archived builds from
http://www.rockbox.org/daily.shtml
.
Note:
Because current and archived builds are development versions that change fre-
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quently, they may behave differently than described in this manual, or they may in-
troduce new (and potentially annoying) bugs. Unless you wish to try the latest and
greatest features at the price of possibly greater instability, or you wish to help with
development, you should stick with the release.
Please now go to section
2.2.3
(page
16
) to complete the installation procedure.
2.2.2. Manual Installation
The manual installation method is still available to you, should you need or desire it by
following the instructions below. If you have used Rockbox Utility to install Rockbox,
then you do not need to follow the next section and can skip straight to section
2.2.3
(page
16
)
Installing the firmware
1. Download your chosen version of Rockbox from the links in the previous section.
2. Connect your player to the computer via USB as described in the manual that
came with your player.
3. Take the
.zip
file that you downloaded and use the “Extract all” command of
your unzip program to extract the files onto
your player.
Note:
The entire contents of the
.zip
file should be extracted directly to the root of
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your player’s drive. Do not try to create a separate directory on your player for the
Rockbox files! The
.zip
file already contains the internal structure that Rockbox needs.
If the contents of the
.zip
file are extracted correctly, you will have a directory called
.rockbox
, which contains all the files needed by Rockbox, in the main directory of your
player’s drive.
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