X-Git-Url: https://pintos-os.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=INSTALL;h=c057f27e2bf44c4c55e7c507bdc107741e966fa7;hb=1b138d959abccefbdaaafed2a1d77cf76541bc92;hp=b9fd6b1ceefa3c59dbc44c5aa1c6d78104325f55;hpb=13c80bfaaff7d5403bdf88c100b03e97fef3aeaf;p=pspp diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index b9fd6b1cee..c057f27e2b 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -36,7 +36,11 @@ Before You Install 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 @@ -56,6 +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/). @@ -66,12 +74,14 @@ The following packages are required to install PSPP: * 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. @@ -83,28 +93,17 @@ 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 2.24.0 - The Gtk+-3.x series will NOT work! + * GTK+ (http://www.gtk.org/), version 3.22.0 or later. * GtkSourceView (http://projects.gnome.org/gtksourceview/) - version 2.2 or later. + version 3.4.0 or later. -The following packages are optional: - -Installing the following packages will allow your PSPP program to read -Gnumeric files. + * GNU Spread Sheet Widget (http://www.gnu.org/software/ssw) - * libxml2 (http://xmlsoft.org/). - -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