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:
- glib (not glib2)
- gtk+ (not gtk2)
- gdk-pixbuf
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.