X-Git-Url: https://pintos-os.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=INSTALL;h=15f356a9451d361a3e6cdfb759018374c451b5fb;hb=refs%2Fheads%2Fdev;hp=5e486ebc87962dd9d6aa71a7955ab3191939a95f;hpb=3ccf4f19ece6c4da5a2d13173c032011faf330b8;p=pspp diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 5e486ebc87..15f356a945 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Installation Instructions for GNU pspp 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 ======== @@ -14,13 +14,13 @@ the following simple procedure should work, even on non-GNU systems: 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! @@ -60,6 +60,10 @@ The following packages are required to install PSPP: * 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/). @@ -70,6 +74,13 @@ The following packages are required to install PSPP: * zlib (http://www.zlib.net/). + * libxml2 (http://xmlsoft.org/). + + * metainfo.its, provided by the appstream package. This is required + by xgettext version lower then 0.20 to extract the translation + strings from the org.fsf.pspp.metainfo.xml.in file. This is only + required for building. It is not a runtime requirement. + 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 @@ -87,28 +98,18 @@ use the GUI, you must run `configure' with --without-gui. 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 3.4.0 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. -The following packages are optional: - -Installing the following packages will allow your PSPP program to read -Gnumeric files. - - * libxml2 (http://xmlsoft.org/). + * GNU Spread Sheet Widget (http://www.gnu.org/software/ssw) + version 0.7 or later. -Installing the following packages will allow your PSPP program to write -OpenDocument text (ODT) files: - - * 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 @@ -118,7 +119,7 @@ Other optional packages: 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. @@ -127,10 +128,14 @@ Other optional packages: PSPP to test the Perl module more thoroughly. It is not needed to build or use the Perl module. + * librsvg enables 300 dpi copy and paste operation. Without librsvg + the copy action will only provide images with default resolution + which is often 96dpi. This only affects bitmap image formats. + 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 @@ -257,7 +262,7 @@ you can set and what kinds of files go in them. 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 ================= @@ -273,10 +278,6 @@ Optional Features Cairo and Pango required to build the GUI, so --without-cairo implies --without-gui. -`--with-gui-tools' - 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