HOWTO: Create Screencasts using Wink on Ubuntu
August 1st, 2006 by 
jay
Aug 11 2006 - UPDATE
THIS TUTORIAL IS NOT COMPLETE.
It was published by accident via technotati scanning the site.
But for some reason http://screencasting.de has linked to this howto and is driving a fair bit of traffic here. So somebody is finding it useful.
Over the past few months I keep seeing tutorials and howto's on varying tech subject distributed via screencasts. If done properly I think screencats are very useful. On the other hand I have seen a few that were toture to watch. With broad-band, cheap memory and cheap storage it seems that 'casting is the next small big thing. I also could have missed the boat and 'casting could be like so last month.
Anyway after doing some reasearch into the subject of 'casting on Linux I found Wink, Tutorial and Presentation creation software. Wink is Freeware (not OSS), cross-platform (it has a Windows Client as well), it has audio recording, it outputs to Flash and Standalone EXE and a few other formats, and it entirly GUI driven.
Installing Wink
First download Wink.
Then extract the tar file:
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home$ tar -xzvf wink15.tar.gz
This will extract 2 files in your home directory: installersh and installdata.tar.gz
The install:
(This will prompty you for a directory to install to.)
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home$ sudo ./installer.sh
Wink does not add its' self to the Application menu or create any short-cuts so you'll have to do that by hand. I have added a quick note on how to do so at the end of this tutorial.
To test wink out you need to launch it from a terminal:
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home$ Please specify where you want to install Wink [/home/username/wink]:
If all goes well you should the Wink app will launch.
HOWTO ScreencastAdd a Shortcut
To add a Wink to the Application menu do this: Application -> Accessiores-> AlacartThis will open Alacart Menu Editor.
Then File-> New Item
A dialog box will pop-up where you will enter:
Name: Wink
Comment: Wink Screencapture
Command: /home/username/wink/wink
Icon: Select whatever you like.
Posted in Linux, HOWTO, Screencast | 
January 6th, 2007 at 4:32 am
Instructions not quite complete regarding installation.
If you want to have other users also use Wink you can specify a system wide directory such as "/bin/wink".
Works well in Kubuntu 6.10.
June 22nd, 2008 at 11:43 am
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