Before you install PSPP, you will need to install certain prerequisite
packages. You may also want to install other packages that enable
-additional functionality in PSPP.
+additional functionality in PSPP. Please note, if you are installing
+any of the libararies mentioned below using pre-prepared binary
+packages provided by popular GNU/Linux vendors, you may need to ensure
+that you install the "development" versions (normally postfixed with
+-dev or -devel).
If you do not know whether you have these installed already, you may
proceed to "Basic Installation", below. The PSPP configuration
* 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
capability).
- * Cairo (http://cairographics.org/), version 1.5 or later.
+ * Cairo (http://cairographics.org/), version 1.12 or later.
* Pango (http://www.pango.org/), version 1.22 or later.
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 2.24.0 - The Gtk+-3.x series will NOT work!
+ * GTK+ (http://www.gtk.org/), version 3.14.5 or later.
+ It has been reported that versions prior to 3.22.x give problems,
+ so a recent version is recommended.
* GtkSourceView (http://projects.gnome.org/gtksourceview/)
- version 2.2 or later.
-
-The following packages are optional:
-
-Installing the following packages will allow your PSPP program to read
-Gnumeric files.
+ version 3.4.0 or later.
- * libxml2 (http://xmlsoft.org/).
-
-Installing the following packages will allow your PSPP program to write
-OpenDocument text (ODT) files:
+ * GNU Spread Sheet Widget (http://www.gnu.org/software/ssw)
- * libxml2 (http://xmlsoft.org/).
+The following packages are optional:
Other optional packages:
- * libncurses (http://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/). Without it,
- PSPP will assume it is running in an 80x25 terminal.
-
* libreadline and libhistory
(http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html). Without
them, interactive command editing and history features in the