CronosII Is built using the GNU Autoconf and Automake Tools and friends. Intergration with Gnome is fairly comprehensive.
You may also run this application under a "pure" GTK environment without Gnome.
This should enable CronosII to be installed anywhere the GIMP Tool Kit is available including ports of GTK to the Windows TM Operating System.
Important: To build and run CronosII-0.1.0 you need to have the following libraries installed:
(my apologies to WindowsTM Users I'm not sure what they need beyond GTK)
Please let me know so that I can update this manual. <gossner@arcom.com.au> or see the section called Authors
glib-1.2.8 or later
glib-config --version
gtk-1.2.8 or later
gtk-config --version
To use with GNOME your working gnome libs will need to be fairly recent gnome-libs 1.2.5 are on this system (and all is well), earlier versions may well work.
gnome-config --versionTo use the Gnome Print Utility you will need libgnomeprint.so.11.2.4 or later wherever you have your Gnome libraries installed. For Example:
or
ls /usr/lib/libgnomeprint.*
ls /usr/local/lib/libgnomeprint.*You will of course have to have the usual GNU tools on hand as well.
Though if you have a working GNU / LINUX (or BSD?) system (with GTK onboard) all should be more than just fine.
CronosII may arrived packaged in a number of formats.
The most likely are shown here:
Gzipped Source Tarballs
These look like this CronosII.-0.1.0.tar.gz
See the section called GNU Zipped Source Packages for install instructions.
Bzip2 Tarballs
This is less likely at the moment, however they will usually look like this:
CronosII-0.1.0.tar.bz2
See Bzipped for install instructions.
Finally CronosII is available as a Redhat Package Manager - Package.
These RPM's should look like this:
CronosII-0.1.0.ixxx.rpm
Instructions for these are at Red Hat Packages
Note: If you are installing from tar balls please read the README and INSTALL files (at least) in the source. These are likely to be more up to date than this manual.
Other formats are possible not least of which are zip and debs. Support for these or other formats may be added should the demand for them warrant it.
These are the most common method of distributing application packages (and other stuff ) in the UNIX / LINUX world.
To install CronosII from the same directory as the package :
[user@ X]#
tar zxvf CronosII-0.1.0.tar.gz |
[user@ X]#
cd CronosII-0.1.0 |
[user @ CronosII-0.1.0] #
./configure |
[user @CronosII-0.1.0] #
./make |
[user @CronosII-0.1.0] #
su |
[user @CronosII-0.1.0] #
password: your-root-password |
[root @CronosII-0.1.0] #
./make install |
[root @CronosII-0.1.0] #
exit |
[user @CronosII-0.1.0] #
cronos |
Note: The text between“ [ and ] ”is a representation of your terminal prompt. Yours will be different to that shown and may change markedly when you "su" to root.
For further instruction and options for using configure and make commands please see the documentation in the tar ball.
Tip: #configure --help
# man make
This mode of distribution uses a powerful compression method ( # man bzip2 ) that is deliberately very similar to gzip at the command line. It is impressive how much size and download time can be saved using this compression method.
Installation with bzip2 is nearly identical to gnuzip.
To install CronosII from the same directory as the package :
[user@ X]#
tar Ixvf CronosII-0.1.0.tar.bz2 |
[user@ X]#
cd CronosII-0.1.0 |
[user @ CronosII-0.1.0]#
./configure |
[user @CronosII-0.1.0]#
./make |
[user @CronosII-0.1.0]#
su |
[user @CronosII-0.1.0]#
password: your-root-password |
[root @CronosII-0.1.0]#
./make install |
[root @CronosII-0.1.0]#
exit |
[user @CronosII-0.1.0]#
cronos |
These packages are used by many LINUX distributions as a simple and effective way of installing software and keeping issues like dependencies in order. Other distributions have their own equally useful approaches that achieve similar ends.
Installation may be undertaken from the command line,or a GUI front end to RPM like GNORPM . In all cases root level permissions are required to install system wide.
At the command line do the following as ROOT from the same directory as you have the package. :
[root@x]#
rpm -Uvh CronosII-0.1.0
|
[root@x]#
exit |
or
login |
[user@x]#
cronos |
Tip: As CronosII tarballs include a spec file you may build your own RPM by typing the following from the command line:
(as root) [root@x]#
rpm -ta CronosII-0.1.0.tar.gzThis should (all going well) build a package ready for you to install as a standard RPM as shown above.