Installation of a mod_spin skeleton application: ================================================ You have two options: 1. As a binary RPM 2. From source tarball Option 1: From binary RPM ========================= You have to be using an RPM based distro to do this (the packages are nomally built for Fedora Core on x86). If you are, then it's really simple: rpm -Uvh spin_app-X.Y.Z-R.ARCH.rpm where X.Y.Z is version of spin_app and R is the RPM release of it. Such installation will create a configuration file for spin_app, located here: /etc/spinapps/spin_app.xml. Any further upgrades of spin_app shouldn't overwrite the configuration file you fiddled with, courtesy of RPM. Option 2: From source tarball ============================= IMPORTANT: You have to install mod_spin BEFORE attempting to build and install any mod_spin applications or rxv_spin.h file won't be found. From the top directory of the application source do: ./configure [--disable-static] [--libdir=/path/to/application/directory] \ [--with-spinconfig=/path/to/rxv_spin-config] make make install Note: You may need to precede the ./configure command with this: CFLAGS="/path/to/rxv_spin.h/directory" Normally, rxv_spin-config will give out the location of the header file. If your mod_spin installation installed pkgconfig file into a non-system location, you may need to do the same for PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable. See pkg-config manual page for more info. Uninstall ========= If you installed from RPM, just do: rpm -e spin_app If you installed from source tarball, simply run from the top directory of the application source: make uninstall