TECkit

TECkit is a toolkit to help in converting legacy data to Unicode. At present Bibledit does not yet support TECkit, but provides its own tools for converting data to Unicode. Bibledit will work properly without TECkit.

To install TECkit, follow the below steps.

Open a terminal.

Download TECkit for Linux. In the terminal, type

svn checkout svn://scripts.sil.org/teckit

To verify the package is there, type

ls

You should see a subdirectory teckit.

Change into this subdirectory. Type

cd teckit

To generate some configuration files, type

./autogen.sh

Watch many messages, but no errors.

To configure the package, type

./configure --prefix=/usr

Watch many messages, but no errors.

To compile the package, type

make

Watch many messages, but no errors.

To install the package type

sudo make install

and provide the password. Watch many messages, but no errors.

TECkit should be installed now and is ready for use.

To go back to the home directory, type

cd

Optionally the teckit source can be cleaned away. To do that, type

rm -rf teckit