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Installation
To install fische on Linux, you have two options:

1) The easy way: check if there is a package available for your distribution. If so, install that package.

2) The optimal way: If you would like to use the most recent version, you will most likely be required to install fische by hand:

Prerequisites
- You will have to install at least the following packages (distribution dependent):
- general build tools like gcc, g++ and make (e.g. un Ubuntu, install build-essential)
- development versions of libsdl, lippulse, optionally libportaudio (for PortAudio support) and libasound (for ALSA support)

Download and un-tar
- Download the most recent version from this site, then
- Open a terminal and type tar xzf /path_to/download_directory/fische-3.1.4.tar.gz (where "3.1.4" must be replaced with the actual version number)
- In the terminal, go to the directory that has now been created: cd fische-3.1 (again, replace the version number if required)

Configure
- The fische configure script takes many options, however, only one will be of some interest: --prefix
- Use this command to configure for the build: ./configure --prefix=/your/path (a foolproof path would be /usr)

Build fische
- Now, if all went well, you are ready to run: make
- This will take just a few seconds, maybe a minute on really old systems

Install
- You are now already able to run your fische binary, but you will most likely want to install it to the path you specified earlier.
- To do so, run sudo make install
- You will be prompted for your password, and fische will be installed.

Running fische
Fische is designed so that once you "get it working", it will remember all those settings, and you can start it without headache from then on.