The basic install is very simple: make, make install. You can change the default install prefix (/usr/local) by specifying it in the make install command, eg: make install PREFIX=/usr To build the command line tool, either uncomment the BUILD_CLI=1 line in the Makefile, or specify BUILD_CLI=1 on the make command line. ie, make BUILD_CLI=1 make install BUILD_CLI=1 As of 2.1 wmacpi requires libdockapp-0.5.0 - the tarball is available from the same place as the wmacpi tarball. If you're running Debian testing you just need to install libdockapp-dev. No uninstall is supported, but isn't exactly difficult to delete all the files by hand . . . Files installed (paths relative to PREFIX): bin/wmacpi bin/acpi man/man1/wmacpi.1 man/man1/acpi.1 Simon Fowler , 2005-01-05