Prerequisites.
Make sure you have all needed libraries (qt3, boost and xlib) along with their headers.
You also need the environment variable QTDIR
to be set to directory in which the Qt toolkit
(version 3) is installed. Many distributions already set this when installing Qt, but some
of them don't. In that case, you have to set the QTDIR
manually. Usually it is set to
something like /usr/qt/3
or /usr/share/qt3
Also, QMAKESPEC
have to be set to match your system type. For most linuxes is is
linux-g++
, on BSD systems it can differ. If QTDIR
is set in your
distribution, this environment variable is probably set too. Once you set QTDIR
, you may
try typing ls $QTDIR/mkspecs - QMAKESPEC
need to be set to name of one
of the directories that are in mkspecs
subdirectory in the Qt directory.
Configuration. First step is to run configuration script, it will do some checks of required libraries and environment. Also, it allow to alter default settings (which is that the application will be installed in /usr/local directory tree) In CVS root (or root of distribution archive) type ./configure [parameters] to run configuration
With parametr --prefix
you can specify where to install the program,
so if you do not have root privileges, you can install somewhere in your home directory,
for example by specifying --prefix=$HOME/pdfedit
.
Type ./configure --help to show all parameters of the configure script.
Compiling. After running configure, type make to compile PDF Editor and re-genereate documentation (if needed, in the distribution archive the documentation is already pre-generated in HTML format, if you have proper tools installed (xstlproc, apache fop), then PDF version of documentation is also generated, if not, it is simply skipped as it is not essential)
Installing. In CVS root (or root of distribution archive) type make install to install PDF Editor. It will check whether the project is compiled (if not, it will compile it) and install the editor.
Uninstalling. In CVS root (or root of distribution archive) type make uninstall to uninstall PDF Editor. The editor must be already built (and installed) for this to work. This will remove all the files that have been installed by make install