Installation - Linux

The Linux version is less well tested, and should be considered a beta version. Any problems are, however, likely to affect the user interface only, rather than the calculations. I have also had reports of success running the Windows version using wine.

The website has an executable (in the directory i386-Linux simply called pgopher) for 32 bit x86 machines, which will run on several recent Linux distributions as is provided the correct libraries are installed. It has been tested on (among others) Fedora Core 3-6,  Red Hat Enterprise 3 and 4 and Suse 9.3. (It will also run on 64 bit systems, provided the appropriate 32 bit libraries are installed.) The libraries that may need installing are:
If the binary does not run on your system you may need to compile from source, or email help-pgopher@bristol.ac.uk. An executable (slave) is also provided for the Slave Editor, and this should be placed in the same directory as the pgopher executable.

The Help menu entries do not do anything at the moment, but the help files are available at http://pgopher.chm.bris.ac.uk/Help/ and a tarball of the current help files can be downloaded from the website.