DESCRIPTION:
TuxGuitar is a multitrack tablature editor and player writen in Java-SWT.

LICENSE:
TuxGuitar is released under the GNU Lesser General Public License.

REQUIREMENTS:

Java Runtime Environment 1.5.X installed in your system.

INSTALL:    
Extract TuxGuitar-*.tar.gz in your favorite location
$tar xfz TuxGuitar-*.tar.gz
$mv TuxGuitar-* /home/*/install_dir
       
RUN:
Run TuxGuitar script.
$/home/*/install_dir/TuxGuitar-*/TuxGuitar

PROBLEMS:
Make sure, the package javax.sound is correctly implemented on your Java virtual machine.
TuxGuitar is written under Sun Java(TM) Development Kit (JDK) 5.0, if you have installed more than one JVM in your system, you can use one of these environment vars:  JAVA or  JAVA_HOME and run TuxGuitar.
Export JAVA:
$export JAVA=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun/bin/java
$/home/user/TuxGuitar-*/TuxGuitar
Export JAVA_HOME:
$export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun
$/home/user/TuxGuitar-*/TuxGuitar           
If you see an error like "java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError", you will need to replace your swt shared library files and jar packages compiled for your system. TuxGuitar comes with SWT for linux-x86, linux-x86_64, mac and win32-x86. make sure download the correct file. if you need another version, download your SWT and replace in lib folder.             
If you don't have SWT installed in one of this locations: /lib, /usr/lib, /usr/local/lib or TuxGuitar/lib.  You will need to add its path to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH and CLASSPATH environment vars.
Export LD_LIBRARY_PATH and CLASSPATH:
$export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/your_swt_library_folder/
$export CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:/your_swt_library_folder/swt.jar
$/home/user/TuxGuitar-*/TuxGuitar
java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError. This means that your JVM is not compatible with the JVM used to create the binaries.  If you see a message like this, you will need to rebuild TuxGuitar from sources.