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CronosII Is built using the GNU Autoconf and Automake Tools and friends. Integration with Gnome is comprehensive.
You may also run this application under a "pure" GTK environment without Gnome. (Though you will need gnome libraries and gnome print for some features.)
In short CronosII should be able to be installed anywhere the GIMP Tool Kit is available including ports of GTK to the Windows TM Operating System.
To build and run CronosII-0.2.2-23 MR2 - Eclipse you need to have the following libraries installed: If you are using a binary package e.g.. RPM or DEB please ignore this list. It should have been taken care of for you.
(my apologies to WindowsTM Users I'm not sure what they need beyond GTK)
Please let me know so that I can update this manual. <petergozz@users.sourceforge.net> or see the Section called Authors and Contributors in the chapter called Extensions, and other information
glib-config --version |
gtk-config --version |
gnome-config --version |
To use the Gnome Print Utility you will need libgnomeprint.so.11.2.4 or later wherever you have your Gnome libraries installed. For Example:
ls /usr/lib/libgnomeprint.* |
ls /usr/local/lib/libgnomeprint.* |
libgnomeprint has been upgraded several times since this was originally written. I have found that as long as your gnome development libraries are as new as libgnome print - all is well.
You will of course have to have the usual GNU tools on hand as well.
Though if you have a working GNU / LINUX (or BSD?) system (with GTK on-board) all these should be more than just fine.
CronosII may arrived packaged in a number of formats.
The most likely are shown here:
Gzipped Source Tar-balls
These look like this
CronosII.-0.2.2-23 MR2 - Eclipse.tar.gz |
See the Section called GNU Zipped Source Packages for install instructions.
Bzip2 Tar-balls
This format is becoming more widely used, these will usually look like this:
CronosII-0.2.2-23 MR2 - Eclipse.tar.bz2 |
See Bzipped for install instructions.
CronosII is also available as a Debian binary package ( Since most of the development team use Debian GNU/Linux )
CronosII-0.2.2-23 MR2 - Eclipse_i386.deb |
There are official and unofficial (wild) packages. Instructions for these are at Debian Packages
Finally CronosII may be available as a Redhat Package Manager - Package.
These RPM's should look like this:
CronosII.-0.2.2-23 MR2 - Eclipse.ixxx.rpm |
Instructions for these are at Red Hat Packages
![]() | If you are installing from tar balls please read the README and INSTALL files (at least) in the source. These are likely to be more up to date than this manual. Other formats are possible not least of which are zip and debs. Support for these or other formats may be added should the demand for them warrant it. |
These are the most common method of distributing application packages (and other stuff ) in the UNIX / LINUX world.
To install CronosII from the same directory as the package :
[user@ X]#
tar zxvf CronosII-0.2.2-23 MR2 - Eclipse.tar.gz |
[user@ X]#
cd CronosII-0.2.2-23 MR2 - Eclipse |
[user @ CronosII-0.2.2-23 MR2 - Eclipse] #
./configure |
[user @CronosII-0.2.2-23 MR2 - Eclipse] #
./make |
[user @CronosII-0.2.2-23 MR2 - Eclipse] #
su |
[user @CronosII-0.2.2-23 MR2 - Eclipse] #
password: your-root-password |
[root @CronosII-0.2.2-23 MR2 - Eclipse] #
./make install |
[root @CronosII-0.2.2-23 MR2 - Eclipse] #
exit |
[user @CronosII-0.2.2-23 MR2 - Eclipse] #
cronos |
![]() | The text between" [ and ] "is a representation of your terminal prompt. Yours will be different to that shown and may change markedly when you "su" to root. |
For further instruction and options for using configure and make commands please see the documentation in the tar ball.
![]() | #configure --help # man make |
This mode of distribution uses a powerful compression method ( # man bzip2 ) that is deliberately very similar to gzip at the command line. It is impressive how much size and download time can be saved using this compression method.
Installation with bzip2 is nearly identical to gnu-zip.
To install CronosII from the same directory as the package :
[user@ X]#
tar Ixvf CronosII-0.2.2-23 MR2 - Eclipse.tar.bz2 |
[user@ X]#
cd CronosII-0.2.2-23 MR2 - Eclipse |
[user @ CronosII-0.2.2-23 MR2 - Eclipse]#
./configure |
[user @CronosII-0.2.2-23 MR2 - Eclipse]#
./make |
[user @CronosII-0.2.2-23 MR2 - Eclipse]#
su |
[user @CronosII-0.2.2-23 MR2 - Eclipse]#
password: your-root-password |
[root @CronosII-0.2.2-23 MR2 - Eclipse]#
./make install |
[root @CronosII-0.2.2-23 MR2 - Eclipse]#
exit |
[user @CronosII-0.2.2-23 MR2 - Eclipse]#
cronos |
These packages are used by many LINUX distributions as a simple and effective way of installing software and keeping issues like dependencies in order. Other distributions have their own equally useful approaches that achieve similar ends.
Installation may be undertaken from the command line,or a GUI front end to RPM like GNORPM . In all cases root level permissions are required to install system wide.
At the command line do the following as ROOT from the same directory as you have the package. :
[root@x]#
rpm -Uvh CronosII-0.2.2-23 MR2 - Eclipse |
[root@x]#
exit |
or
login |
[user@x]#
cronos |
![]() | As CronosII tarballs include a spec file you may build your own RPM by typing the following from the command line: (as root) [root@x]#
This should (all going well) build a package ready for you to install as a standard RPM as shown above. |
CronosII version 0.2.2 and hopefully later versions are now available from the unstable branch at your local ftp mirror.
apt-get install cronosII |
There may also be unofficial (wild) debs available from the CronosII download site.
To install Official Debian packages use
apt-get install cronosii |
dpkg -i CronosII-0.2.2-23 MR2 - Eclipse_i386.deb |
Please note that the unofficial and official packages may use slightly different package names. You may need to do an uninstall before moving to the other version.
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