Installation; Prerequisites; Installing Rockbox; Using The Windows Installer - Rockbox Archos Jukebox Studio 5000 User Manual

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2. Installation

2.1. Prerequisites

Before installing Rockbox you should make sure you meet the prerequisites. Also you
may need some tools for installation. In most cases these will be already available on
your computer but if not you need to get some additional software.
zip Utility. Rockbox is distributed as an archive using the "zip" format. Thus you need
a tool to handle that compressed format. Usually your computer should have a
tool installed that can handle the zip file format. Windows XP has builtin support
for zip files and presents them to you as folders unless you have installed a third
party program that handles compressed files. For other operating systems this
may vary. If the zip file format isn't recognized on your computer you can find a
program to handle them at
can downloaded and used free of charge.
USB connection. To transfer Rockbox to your player you need to connect it to your
computer. To proceed you need to know where to access the player. On windows
this means you need to figure out the drive letter the device got associated with.
On Linux you need to know the mount point of your player.
Text Editor. If you want to create customized configuration files you'll need a text ed-
itor like Windows' "Wordpad". Of course you can simply save configurations on
the player for which you don't need an editor at all. Modifying configurations
from your computer is a more advanced feature which you probably won't need.

2.2. Installing Rockbox

2.2.1. Using the windows installer

Using the Windows self installing executable to install Rockbox is the easiest method of
installing the software on your Jukebox. Simply follow the on-screen instructions and
select the appropriate drive letter and Jukebox model when prompted. You can use
"Add / Remove Programs" to uninstall the software at a later date.

2.2.2. Manual installation

For non-Windows users and those wishing to install manually from the archive the
procedure is still fairly simple.
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