Auto Clicking?

Hi all,

apologies if this is a daft question, but I'm after downloading an 'auto clicker' for my AA1, and I've got pretty much no clue as to how to go about it. I've managed to enable the desktop menu, and I've found the add/remove software' link, but I've downloaded a program called 'xautoclick' from sourceforge.net and I'm not sure how to go about installing it. Apparently it needs compiling!

Any help is much appreciated as I'm pretty new to the Linux scene, and want to replace windows forevermore.

Matty.

 

Compiling on Linux isn't as scary as it can sound - especially for something which looks relatively small like this! All you really need to get started is a set of the compilation tools; in a terminal do

Code:

sudo yum install make gcc-c++ 

and the necessary bits & pieces will install themselves. That's just the manual way of doing what the Add/Remove software utility is doing - but if you know what you actually need, using the command line you're usually finished by the time the GUI tool would be ready for you to start!

Then just follow the instructions at the bottom of the on the Autoclick webpage. It does refer to needing some libraries for the GUI options to install - if you get stuck with that aspect then ask again; it may just find what it needs on the AAO system, or you may need to install the libraries first. We'll see!

 

Thanks David,

After installing the c++ compiler and extracting the xauoclick archive, i ran the command './configure', and this is what i've ended up with:

Code:

[user@localhost xautoclick-0.20-src]$ ./configure
Checking for c compiler ... gcc
Checking for c++ compiler ... g++
Checking for GNU Make ... yes, using make
Checking for extra headers ... no
Checking for extra libraries ... no
Checking for gcc support of -MM option ... yes
Checking for g++ support of -MM option ... yes
Checking for inttypes.h ... yes
Checking for unistd.h ... yes
Checking for malloc.h ... yes
Checking for X11 header presence ... not found (check if the dev(el) packages are installed
Checking for X11 ... no
Checking for XTest extension ... no
No X11 found. Not building anything that depends on it

Debug symbols disabled.
All compiler warnings disabled.

Cleaning up source tree ... done

Generating config.mak ... done.

aAutoClick    : no
cAutoClick    : no
gAutoClick    : no
gAutoClick2   : no
qtAutoClick   : no

Installation to /usr/local

None of the xautoclick applications can be build. You need to install the
development packages of X11, GTK+ and/or QT. Check the documentation of
your distribution for details.

user@localhost xautoclick-0.20-src]$ 

I guess this means I need the X11 development packages?

Matty.

 

Looks like it!

The package you need is probably called libX11-devel or something very similar to that.

 

For compiling X11 programs you'll need:

Code:

sudo yum install libX11-devel.i386