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 About this README
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This README is intended to provide quick and to-the-point documentation for
technical users intending to compile parts of Guacamole themselves.

Distribution-specific packages are available from the files section of the main
project page:
 
    http://sourceforge.net/projects/guacamole/files/

Distribution-specific documentation is provided on the Guacamole wiki:

    http://guac-dev.org/


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 What is guacd?
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guacd is the Guacamole proxy daemon used by the Guacamole web application and
framework. As JavaScript cannot handle binary protocols (like VNC and remote
desktop) efficiently, a new test-based protocol was developed which would
contain a common superset of the operations needed for efficient remote
desktop access, but would be easy for JavaScript programs to process. guacd
is the proxy which translates between arbitrary protocols and the Guacamole
protocol.


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 Compiling and installing guacd 
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Please note that distribution-specific pre-compiled packages are available from
the files section of the main project site:

    http://sourceforge.net/projects/guacamole/files/

guacd is built using the popular GNU Automake, and thus provides the standard
configure script. Before compiling, you need to have compiled and installed
libguac, the core Guacamole library. This is available from the main Guacamole
site at http://guac-dev.org/.

1) Run configure

    $ ./configure

    Assuming all dependencies have been installed, this should succeed without
    errors. If you wish to install the init script as well, you need to specify
    the location where your system init scripts are located (typically
    /etc/init.d):

    $ ./configure --with-init-dir=/etc/init.d

    Running configure in this manner will cause the "make install" step to
    install an init script to the specified directory, which you can then
    activate using the service management mechanism provided by your
    distribution).

2) Run make

    $ make

    guacd will now compile.

3) Install (as root)

    # make install

    guacd will install to your /usr/local/sbin directory by default. You can
    change the install location by using the --prefix option for configure.


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 Running guacd 
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If you installed the init script during compile and install, you should be
able to start guacd through the service management utilities provided by
your distribution (if any) or by running the init script directly (as root):

    # /etc/init.d/guacd start

Root access is needed to write the pidfile /var/run/guacd.pid. You can also run
guacd itself directly without the init script (as any user):

    $ guacd

guacd currently takes four command-line options:

    -b HOST 

        Changes the host or address that guacd listens on.

    -l PORT

        Changes the port that guacd listens on (the default is port 4822).

    -p PIDFILE

        Causes guacd to write the PID of the daemon process to the specified
        file. This is useful for init scripts and is used by the provided init
        script.

    -f
        Causes guacd to run in the foreground, rather than automatically
        forking into the background. 


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 Reporting problems
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Please report any bugs encountered by opening a new ticket at the Trac system
hosted at:
    
    http://guac-dev.org/trac/