### Author:  [@wedjlok](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/wedjlok)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2017, 11:34pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/using-mimic-as-a-standalone-program/2092/1 "2017-08-27T23:34:20Z")
I was just curious if there was an install option for using Mimic as a standalone program. Or is it better to put it in my path from within the install/build directory and call it that way?
Essentially I would like to add its functionality to simply be called upon in the CLI or through a script, but would prefer it to be usable system-wide and not dependent upon its presence within the myctoft-core directory structure.
I hope that makes sense.
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### Author:  [@newone](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/newone)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2017, 4:30am UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/using-mimic-as-a-standalone-program/2092/2 "2017-08-28T04:30:34Z")
It makes sense
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### Author:  [@forslund](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/forslund)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2017, 6:35am UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/using-mimic-as-a-standalone-program/2092/3 "2017-08-28T06:35:50Z")
As @newone said, it makes perfect sense.
mimic can be installed on your system as any other cli application. It’s available as a package for Fedora and I think it can be installed on ubuntu systems using the mycroft repo. Otherwise go to [https://github.com/mycroft.ai/mimic](https://github.com/mycroft.ai/mimic) and follow the instructions to build and install using `config, make, make install`
Takes a bit of time to build though.
Any problems give me a shout.
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### Author:  [@wedjlok](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/wedjlok)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2017, 1:47pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/using-mimic-as-a-standalone-program/2092/4 "2017-08-28T13:47:12Z")
Oh yes, I do have it installed via the git repo, and built and running for mycroft. And it did take quite a while to actually build, but I was expecting that from reading before install.
I was just more curious as to the best approach to install it so as not not have to be called from within its own directory and make it more of a system-wide available program. I mean I CAN just call it from ~/mycroft-core/mimic/mimic.sh but I’d prefer it to be more open all around for use.
I was simply thinking a symlink from its own directory to /usr/bin/mimic in order to do that, but does its deps need to be in my path globally since they are installed in ~/mycroft-core/mimic/ or is there a way to install it so that the libs and all deps go into their respective places for use within the whole system?
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### Author:  [@forslund](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/forslund)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2017, 2:02pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/using-mimic-as-a-standalone-program/2092/5 "2017-08-28T14:02:02Z")
Since you have it downloaded in the mycroft directory I suggest the following
from the mycroft directory:
```auto
cd mimic
mkdir build-sys
cd build-sys
../configure
make
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig
```
That will give you a system wide installation of mimic (will be installed in /usr/local/bin)
/Åke
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### Author:  [@wedjlok](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/wedjlok)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2017, 4:04pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/using-mimic-as-a-standalone-program/2092/6 "2017-08-28T16:04:40Z")
Thank you for the input. I have done that and it seems to be working as I wanted. I appreciate the response!
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### Author:  [@med](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/med)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2018, 1:05pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/using-mimic-as-a-standalone-program/2092/7 "2018-05-04T13:05:01Z")
any screenshots @wedjlok please
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### Author:  [@wedjlok](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/wedjlok)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2018, 1:52pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/using-mimic-as-a-standalone-program/2092/8 "2018-05-04T13:52:59Z")
I don’t actually have any screenshots because by doing this it just allows me to use mimic via terminal, or to pipe things through it.
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### Author:  [@KathyReid](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/KathyReid)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2018, 11:28am UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/using-mimic-as-a-standalone-program/2092/9 "2018-05-05T11:28:05Z")
@wedjlok we also have some documentation here that may be useful:
> **[Mimic - Mycroft](https://mycroft.ai/documentation/mimic/)**
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> Learn about Mimic, Mycroft's own Text to Speech (TTS) solution, based on CMU's Flite software.