These instructions are based on the generic GNU installation
instructions, but they have been tailored for PSPP. These instructions
-apply only to people wishing to build and install PSPP from source.
+apply only to people wishing to build and install PSPP from source.
Overview
========
tar -xzf pspp-*.tar.gz
cd pspp-*
./configure
- make
+ make
sudo make install
Obviously, you should replace 'pspp-*' in the above, with the name of
-the tarball you are installing.
+the tarball you are installing.
-In 99% of cases, that is all you have to do - FINISHED!
+In 99% of cases, that is all you have to do - FINISHED!
* Perl (http://www.perl.org/), version 5.005_03 or later. Perl is
required during build but not after installation.
+ * Python (https://python.org/), version 2.7 or later (Python 3 is
+ fine). Some tests require Python; if it is missing, those tests
+ will be skipped. PSPP does not otherwise require Python.
+
* iconv, which should be installed as part of a Unix-like system.
If you don't have a version already, you can install GNU
libiconv (http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/).
* zlib (http://www.zlib.net/).
+ * libxml2 (http://xmlsoft.org/).
+
The following packages are required to enable PSPP's graphing
features. If you cannot arrange to install them, you must run
`configure' with --without-cairo (in which case you will get no graphing
0.18 and 0.19 have a bug that will prevent library detection,
but other versions should be fine.
- * GTK+ (http://www.gtk.org/), version 3.14.5 or later.
+ * GTK+ (http://www.gtk.org/), version 3.22.0 or later.
- * GtkSourceView (http://projects.gnome.org/gtksourceview/)
+ * GtkSourceView (http://projects.gnome.org/gtksourceview/)
version 3.4.0 or later.
* GNU Spread Sheet Widget (http://www.gnu.org/software/ssw)
The following packages are optional:
-Installing the following packages will allow your PSPP program to read
-Gnumeric files.
-
- * libxml2 (http://xmlsoft.org/).
-
-Installing the following packages will allow your PSPP program to write
-OpenDocument text (ODT) files:
-
- * libxml2 (http://xmlsoft.org/).
-
Other optional packages:
* libreadline and libhistory
later. Installing Texinfo will allow you to build PSPP
documentation in PostScript or PDF format.
- * libpq, from Postgresql (http://postgresql.org). This enables PSPP
+ * libpq, from Postgresql (http://postgresql.org). This enables PSPP
to read Postgresql databases. The tests for the Postgresql
interface, but not the Postgresql interface itself, requires the
Postgresql server to be installed.
Basic Installation
==================
-These are installation instructions specific to PSPP (including PSPPIRE,
+These are installation instructions specific to PSPP (including PSPPIRE,
the graphic user interface). These instructions contain the
information most commonly needed by people wishing to build the
program from source. More detailed information can be found in the
You can cause programs to be installed with an extra prefix or
suffix on their names by giving `configure' the option
-`--program-prefix=PREFIX' or `--program-suffix=SUFFIX'.
+`--program-prefix=PREFIX' or `--program-suffix=SUFFIX'.
Optional Features
=================