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These instructions are based on the generic GNU installation
-instructions, but they have been tailored for PSPP.
+instructions, but they have been tailored for PSPP. These instructions
+apply only to people wishing to build and install PSPP from source.
Overview
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In 99% of cases, that is all you have to do - FINISHED!
+
+
If any part of the above process fails, then it is
likely that one or more of the necessary prerequisites is missing
from your system. The following paragraphs contain highly detailed
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
MinGW (http://www.mingw.org/) are known to work.
* The GNU Scientific Library (http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/),
- version 1.8 or later, including libgslcblas included with GSL.
+ version 1.13 or later, including libgslcblas included with GSL.
* 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. 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/).
- * libintl, from GNU gettext (http://ww.gnu.org/software/gettext).
+ * libintl, from GNU gettext (http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext).
GNU libc includes an integrated libintl, so there is no need to
separately install libintl on a GNU/Linux system.
* 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 3.4.0 or later.
+ * GTK+ (http://www.gtk.org/), version 3.18.0 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 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
by setting variables in the command line or in the environment. Here
is an example:
- ./configure CC=c89 CFLAGS=-O2 LIBS=-lposix
+ ./configure CC=c89 CFLAGS=-O0 LIBS=-lposix
To cross-compile PSPP, you will likely need to set the
PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR environment variable to point to an
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