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<div class="title title-terms"><h3><span class="title">Dependencies</span></h3></div>
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<dd class="terms"><p class="p"><span class="link">Python 2.7 or 3.x</span></p></dd>
<dd class="terms"><p class="p"><span class="link">PyGtk or PyGI</span></p></dd>
<dd class="terms"><p class="p">Gtk2 or Gtk3</p></dd>
<dd class="terms"><p class="p"><span class="link">Requests/urllib3</span></p></dd>
<dd class="terms"><p class="p"><span class="link">PIL/Pillow</span></p></dd>
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<dd class="terms"><p class="p"><span class="link">Python-LXML</span></p></dd>
<dd class="terms"><p class="p"><span class="link">Python-PyQuery</span></p></dd>
<dd class="terms"><p class="p">Audacious/VLC or any other player</p></dd>
<dd class="terms"><p class="p">Streamripper or fIcy</p></dd>
<dd class="terms"><p class="p">youtube-dl</p></dd>
<dd class="terms"><p class="p">fonts: Symbola/Unifont for some UI parts</p></dd>
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<dt class="terms"><span class="file">/home/$USER/.config/streamtuner2/</span></dt>
<dd class="terms"><p class="p">Corresponds to the XDG_CONFIG_HOME setting. All ST2 configuration settings
            are contained within here and are in JSON format.</p></dd>
<dt class="terms"><span class="file">/home/$USER/.cache/streamtuner2/</span></dt>
<dd class="terms"><p class="p">Set from XDG_CACHE_HOME environment variable. Contains the
            channel cache/ and icons/. Symlinks in <span class="file">.config</span>
            remain for convenience.</p></dd>
<dt class="terms"><span class="file">~/.config/streamtuner2/settings.json</span></dt>
<dd class="terms"><p class="p">General runtime options, plugin settings, and configured audio players.</p></dd>
<dt class="terms"><span class="file">~/.config/streamtuner2/window.json</span></dt>
<dd class="terms"><p class="p">Saved window sizes, list widths.</p></dd>
<dt class="terms"><span class="file">~/.config/streamtuner2/state.json</span></dt>
<dd class="terms"><p class="p">Last category in each channel tab.</p></dd>
<dt class="terms"><span class="file">~/.config/streamtuner2/bookmarks.json</span></dt>
<dd class="terms"><p class="p">Is a separate cache file for your bookmarked/favourite radio stations.</p></dd>
<dt class="terms"><span class="file">~/.cache/streamtuner2/cache/***.json</span></dt>
<dd class="terms"><p class="p">Channel cache, with station/stream lists in JSON files.</p></dd>
<dt class="terms"><span class="file">~/.cache/streamtuner2/icons/*.png</span></dt>
<dd class="terms"><p class="p">Holds downloaded favicons for station homepages.</p></dd>
<dt class="terms"><span class="file">~/.config/streamtuner2/plugins/*.py</span></dt>
<dd class="terms"><p class="p">Contain downloaded contrib/ plugins.</p></dd>
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<p class="p">On Windows the <span class="file">~/.config/</span> directory is called
	<span class="file">%APPDATA%</span> instead. The paths in there are equally
	structured. On Linux <span class="file">~/.cache/</span> is used to separate
        temporary from configuration data.</p>
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<dt class="terms"><span class="file">/usr/bin/streamtuner2</span></dt>
<dd class="terms"><p class="p">Associates the main binary.</p></dd>
<dt class="terms"><span class="file">/usr/share/streamtuner2/</span></dt>
<dd class="terms"><p class="p">Contains the individual ST2 python modules, and plugins in channels/. Also packages in pyquery/, but which is only used if the according modules aren't installed by the distribution.</p></dd>
<dt class="terms"><span class="file">/usr/share/doc/streamtuner2/</span></dt>
<dd class="terms"><p class="p">Contains the README, and Mallard/gnome-help/yelp files under help/.</p></dd>
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<p class="p">The majority of code distributed with ST2 is placed into the Public Domain; meaning
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