These instructions are for Debian based operating systems (like Ubuntu), but the procedure should be quite similar on any Linux system.

Before using this software you should reset your barcode scanner to factory defaults by scanning the barcode in the user manual. Some of the non-default settings available on the scanner are (not yet?) supported by this software.

• Download the latest source
• open a terminal
• unpack the downloaded file to any directory you like

tar zxvf FlicServ.tar.gz

• Make sure the two Perl programs are runnable

sudo chmod 755 FlicServ pop

• Install the required Perl modules and applications

sudo apt-get install libdevice-serialport-perl libthreads-perl libthreads-shared-perl xautomation

• Go ahead and add a global shortcut for the pop application. If you don't know how to do this follow the example in my global keyboard shortcut guide, but add a shortcut to /path/to/pop instead of /usr/bin/emacs