Waimea uses automake, in order to generate the Makefiles for waimea use: $ autogen.sh After that, standard build procedures apply: $ make $ make install For user specific configuration, copy and edit the following files: $ cp data/waimearc ~/.waimearc $ mkdir ~/.waimea $ cp data/pre-action.conf ~/.waimea $ cp data/pre-style.conf ~/.waimea $ cp data/post-action.conf ~/.waimea $ cp data/post-style.conf ~/.waimea