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during automatic installation, you need to know where to access the player. On
Windows this means you need to figure out the drive letter associated with the
player. On Linux you need to know the mount point of your player.
For manual installation and customization additional software is required.
ZIP utility.
Rockbox is distributed as a compressed archive using the
.zip
format.
Your computer will normally already have a means of handling such archive
files. Windows XP has built-in support for
.zip
files and presents them to you
as directories unless you have installed a third party program that handles com-
pressed files. For other operating systems this may vary. If the
.zip
file for-
mat is not recognised on your computer you can find a program to handle them
at
http://www.info-zip.org/
or
http://sevenzip.sf.net/
, both of which can be down-
loaded and used free of charge.
Text editor.
As you will see in the following chapters, Rockbox is highly configurable.
In addition to saving configurations, Rockbox also allows you to create customised
configuration files. If you would like to edit custom configuration files on your
computer, you will need a text editor like Windows’ “Wordpad”.
2.3 Installing Rockbox
2.3.1 Automated Installation
To automatically install Rockbox, download the official installer and housekeeping tool
R
OCKBOX
U
TILITY
. It allows you to:
•
Automatically install all needed components for using Rockbox (“Small Installa-
tion”)
•
Automatically install all suggested components (“Full Installation”)
•
Selectively install optional components
•
Install additional themes
•
Install voice files and generate talk clips
•
Uninstall all components you installed using Rockbox Utility
Prebuilt binaries for Windows, Linux and MacOS X are available at the
Z
RockboxUtility
wiki page.
Warning:
When first starting R
OCKBOX
U
TILITY
run “Autodetect”, found in the con-
!
figuration dialog (File
→
Configure). Autodetection can detect most player types. If
autodetection fails or is unable to detect the mountpoint, make sure to enter the correct
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OCKBOX MANUAL
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