Any knowledge of how to work with mouse and icons is not required. From tarball: ./configure && make && sudo make install From git: ./autogen.sh && 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://paraslash.systemlinux.org/manual.html