# Building from Source

Installing from source will involve the following steps: getting the source, resolving dependencies, configuration, compilation, testing, and installation. The &app; installation process is fairly standard:

      ./autogen.sh
      ./configure <options>
      make
      make check
      make install

Continue reading for detailed step-by-step instructions of the entire procedure.

Presently, &app; source is about 16 MB when extracted and configured. Compilation requires about 100 MB of harddrive space. A minimum of 128 MB of physical RAM is recommended for compiling.