Any knowledge of how to work with mouse and icons is not required. Installing osl ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ git clone git://git.tuebingen.mpg.de/osl cd osl && make && sudo make install (see http://people.tuebingen.mpg.de/maan/osl/) Installing paraslash from tarball ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ./configure && make && sudo make install Installing paraslash from git ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ autoconf && autoheader && make && sudo make install Example for cross-compiling ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ export CROSS_COMPILE='armv6j-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi-' export PATH="/usr/cross/arm/bin:$PATH" export CC=${CROSS_COMPILE}gcc export LDFLAGS=' -L/usr/sysroot/arm/lib -L/usr/sysroot/arm/usr/lib -L/usr/sysroot/arm/usr/lib/glibc/lib -L/usr/sysroot/arm/usr/local/ssl/lib ' autoconf autoheader ./configure --host=arm-linux-gnueabi --prefix /usr/sysroot/arm/usr/local make CROSS_COMPILE=$CROSS_COMPILE For details see the user manual: http://people.tuebingen.mpg.de/maan/paraslash/manual.html