# How to Obtain LCDproc

## Versioning

At the time of writing the following majors versions of LCDproc are floating around on the internet:

LCDproc 0.5.7

- LCDproc 0.5.7 is the current stable version of LCDproc. This is the version recommended to use.

Older releases of LCDproc can be found on the Sourceforge project page at .

## Download Yesterday's CVS Version of LCDproc as a Tarball

There are nightly distributions of the CVS branches of LCDproc. You can download them from

To extract the files run

    $ tar xvfz lcdproc-CVS-*.tar.gz

## Download The Latest Version of LCDproc from CVS

Of course you can download the latest stuff from CVS via anonymous login.

Login to CVS:

    $ cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@lcdproc.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/lcdproc login

(Hit enter when prompted for a password.)

Get the files from CVS:

    $ cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@lcdproc.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/lcdproc checkout -r stable-0-5-x lcdproc

Once you've done that and want to update the downloaded files to the latest stuff you can use the "update" command of CVS (Make sure to be in the lcdproc directory.):

    $ cvs update -d

Now that once you have downloaded the files you can prepare them for compiling, but first you should (you don't have to) copy them to another place on your machine.