-PSPP Installation Instructions
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+Installation Instructions for GNU pspp
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These instructions are based on the generic GNU installation
instructions, but they have been tailored for PSPP.
user interface for PSPP. If you cannot install them or do not wish to
use the GUI, you must run `configure' with --without-gui.
- * pkg-config (http://pkg-config.freedesktop.org/wiki/).
+ * pkg-config (http://pkg-config.freedesktop.org/wiki/). Versions
+ 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 2.8.0 or later, although we
- recommend version 2.10.2 or later.
+ * GTK+ (http://www.gtk.org/), version 2.12.0 or later.
* libglade (http://www.jamesh.id.au/software/libglade/), version
- 2.0 or later.
+ 2.6 or later.
+
+Installing the following packages will allow your PSPP binary to read
+Gnumeric files.
+
+ * pkg-config (http://pkg-config.freedesktop.org/wiki/). Versions
+ 0.18 and 0.19 have a bug that will prevent library detection,
+ but other versions should be fine.
+
+ * zlib (http://www.zlib.net/).
+
+ * libxml2 (http://xmlsoft.org/).
The following packages are optional.
later. Installing Texinfo will allow you to build PSPP
documentation in PostScript or PDF format.
+ * libpq, from Postgresql (http://postgresql.org). This enables PSPP
+ to read Postgresql databases.
+
Basic Installation
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Build the gui developer tools. There is no reason to use this
option unless you're involved with the development of PSPP
+`--without-lib{xx}'
+ Optional libraries should normally be detected and the relevant
+ functionality will be built they exist. However, on some poorly
+ configured systems a library may exist, but be totally broken.
+ In these cases you can use --without-lib{xx} to force configure
+ to disregard it.
Defining Variables
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