## Authenticating Flickcurl

## Build Flickcurl library and flickcurl utility

      $ ./configure
      $ make

You should get an error if you now try the utility:

      $ utils/flickcurl photos.getInfo 1234567
      flickcurl: ERROR: No shared secret
      flickcurl: Command photos.getInfo failed

This is because there is no configuration set for the library. For the flickcurl utility, it reads the configuration from a file `~/.flickcurl.conf` which contains parameters used for authentication. This section describes how those parameters are obtained.