Installing the
static GTK+ binary distribution:
A number of people have had
problems installing XNotesPlus because they've grown accustomed to the
"configure" way of installing from source. Since I prefer using imake
instead, I'll have to provide binary installations instead.
Installing the binary package
is pretty straight forward. Before we get started, just a couple
of things you should be aware of:
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The binary distribution is available
for Linux only at this time. I don't have access to other flavors
of Unix so can't build the binary distributions for them yet.
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XNotesPlus is an end user tool,
designed to be run by individuals. As such, it expects to find all
of its data files (sound, Pilot, etc) under a specific directory.
During installation you will be asked where this directory should live.
If you want to make life easy for yourself, select $HOME/.xnotesplus, where
$HOME is your home directory (ie the directory you are placed in when you
first log in, such as /home/yourloginid).
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Install the binary in a directory
that is already in your PATH environment variable. Since XNotesPlus
is desinged for end users, you might find it convenient to install it into
a directory such as $HOME/bin. That way, you don't need to have root
(ie priviledged) access to directories like /usr/local/bin or /usr/bin.
Of course, if you do install in $HOME/bin, then that directory needs to
be in your PATH environment variable. If it's not, you can add it
with a command like this:
For sh, bash, or ksh users:
% PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin; export PATH
For csh users:
% setenv PATH $PATH:$HOME/bin
Note: the % is
a command line prompt. You don't need to type it too.
In the following, the package
name will be something like XNotesPlus-v3.4.0-Linux-gtk.tar.gz. The
version number and platform name may be different, however.
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cd /tmp
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mkdir /tmp/xnotes
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copy the binary package into
/tmp/xnotes
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unpack the binary package:
% gzip -d <packagename>
Note: After uncompressing with gzip, the package
name will no longer have the ".gz" suffix.
% tar xvf <packagename>
This will create another directory called xnotes.
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Run the installation script
and follow the instructions there:
% cd xnotes
% ./install
If you have problems with the
install script, let me know. If you don't understand what the install
script is asking or doing, let me know so I can make it easier to understand.
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