Lars Erikssons installation page

This page describes the procedures that I have followed when installing some of the GNU/UNIX like programs on my MS-Windows computers. I have made these notes mainly for myself but they might be useful also for you so therefore I have made them available for everyone. (I'm sorry that the links appear in the frames but this will change some day when I get more time.) The programs that I have installation descriptions for are:

cygwin Installation (010420)

I just followed the standard procedure for installing the cygwin package and installed all files with one important exception: I did not install the teTeX package that is included since that small package gives problems with my other big LaTeX installation. The simple procedure is

1. Download and run the setup program, from cygwin.
2. Run the setup program and first select the option Download from internet, and downloaded it to the directory D:/home/eriksson/cygwin.
3. Selected use IE5 settings.
4. Selected the site ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch which was the closest.
5. Then it is just to follow the instructions and when there is a question about what packages to install. I deselected the teTeX-beta package by clicking on the icon with the recycle arrows (such that the text says skip).
6. When the download is complete, I ran setup once again. I selected to install it for all users on my computer, and to use Unix-style files.
7. After the last installation, 2002-06-28, bash did not read the .bashrc file at startup so I added a symlink from ~/.bash_profile to ~/.bashrc.

   cd ~
   ln -s .bashrc .bash_profile

cygwin/XFree86 4.1.0 Installation (010720)

1. I downloaded all files in the distribution directory from the ftp-mirror closest to mee the list of mirrors can be found in cygwin/XFree86. For mee it was the Swiss server.
2. Started cygwin, and changed to my local download directory

   cd /cygdrive/d/Home/eriksson/cygwin/xfree4.0.1

3. I ran the install shell-program

   sh Xinstall.sh -check

   just to see that it was working. (This script installs the program but it does also check what version of the X server that you should install). In this case it is the ix86-distribution.
4. Unzipped the program extract.exe.bz2 using

   bunzip2 extract.exe.bz2

5. Then I ran the script

   sh Xinstall.sh

   and answered yes to all questions except for the package: Xjdoc which is the documentation in Japanese.
6. Changed directory to the X11R6/bin and extracted the startup scripts

   cd /usr/X11R6/bin
   tar -xzf /cygdrive/d/Home/eriksson/cygwin/xfree4.0.1/startup-scripts.tgz

7. Copied the startxwin.sh to a binary directory, and added the following lines to my .bashrc file, so that it will have the path to the XFree86 binary directory and so that the display will be on the current machine.

   # Add the XFree86 distribution to the path
   PATH=$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin
   export PATH
   # Here I set the DISPLAY variable for this computer.
   DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
   export DISPLAY

   I also have a copy of my .bashrc file available as a text file.

cygwin/XFree86 Installation (020422)

1. Installed XFree86 provided in the standard cygwin distribution, during the installation i selcted to install everything.
2. To get a swedish keyboard I compiled and installed the xkeymap tool. I followed the following steps.
   1. Downloaded the source files from the XKeyCaps page. Then I followed the installation instructions in the README file for the installation. First the following command is run to setup the Makefile.

      xmkmf

   2. Next step is to run make but this failed when building the main exe-file due to that the option -lXpm is not set an according to a mailing list -lXpm is usually included when -lXaw is used. So I changed a line in the Makefile

      Old line: XAWLIB =  -lXaw
      New line: XAWLIB =  -lXaw -lXpm

      Now i run

      make

      and it successfully produces the xkeymap.exe file but it fails when geneating an html file. Any way I just installed the program without the documentation with

      make install

3. Next I started the server with startx and then the xkeymap program and generated a .xmodmap file that I added to my startxwin.sh script.

KDE/Cygwin (020426)

1. First I downloaded all files for the 2.2.1 version of the kde/cygin projectfrom the files page at kde/cygwin (it took a long time to get everything onto the disk since the sever seemed to be slow).
2. Then I installed the qt libraries, by unpacking the binary distribution

   cd /
   tar -xjvf /cygdrive/c/Downloads/Cygwin/kde2.2.1/qt-2.3.1-b1.tar.bz2

   and added the binary directory to the path in my .bashrc file.
3. Then I checked that the cygwin package pcre was installed, by running setup.exe and looking at the files that I had downloaded and installed.
4. Then I installed the the binary distribution of cygipc, the audifile library, and the libICE package (named kde-xlib)

   tar -xjvf /cygdrive/c/Downloads/Cygwin/kde2.2.1/cygipc-1.11-1.tar.bz2
   tar -xjvf /cygdrive/c/Downloads/Cygwin/kde2.2.1/audiofile-0.2.1-20011218.tar.bz2
   tar -xjvf /cygdrive/c/Downloads/Cygwin/kde2.2.1/kde-xlib-1.1.tar.bz2
   

   During the last operation tar complained and said that the following files did already exist

   tar: usr/X11R6/bin/libICE.dll: Cannot open: File exists
   tar: usr/X11R6/bin/libXext.dll: Cannot open: File exists
   

   This means that these files must be included in the XFree86 distribution.
5. The next step was to install the kde libraries.

   tar -xjvf /cygdrive/c/Downloads/Cygwin/kde2.2.1/kdelibs-2.2.1-a2.tar.bz2
   tar -xjvf /cygdrive/c/Downloads/Cygwin/kde2.2.1/kdelibs-2.2.1-a2-update1.tar.bz2
   tar -xjvf /cygdrive/c/Downloads/Cygwin/kde2.2.1/kdelibs-2.2.1-a2-u2.tar.bz2
   tar -xjvf /cygdrive/c/Downloads/Cygwin/kde2.2.1/kdelibs-2.2.1-a2-u3.tar.bz2

6. The next step is to install the kdebase package (and the games).

   tar -xjvf /cygdrive/c/Downloads/Cygwin/kde2.2.1/kdebase-2.2.1-a2.tar.bz2
   tar -xjvf /cygdrive/c/Downloads/Cygwin/kde2.2.1/kdebase-2.2.1-a2-u1.tar.bz2
   tar -xjvf /cygdrive/c/Downloads/Cygwin/kde2.2.1/kdegames-2.2.1-a2.tar.bz2
   

   I also set some paths and variables in the .bashrc file.

   export KDEDIR=/opt/kde2
   export QTDIR=/usr/local/lib/qt2
   export KDEHOME=$HOME/.kde2
   export PATH=$KDEDIR/bin:$KDEDIR/lib:$QTDIR/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:$PATH
   export LTDL_LIBRARY_PATH=$KDEDIR/lib:$KDEDIR/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
   export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$KDEDIR/lib:$KDEDIR/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
   

   I did not touch the following that I downloaded.

   kdevelop-a1.tar.bz2
   kdepim-2.2.1-a2.tar.bz2
   avl-1.4.0.tar.gz
   kde-x-1.2.tar.bz2
   libxml2-20011126.tar.bz2
   startkde.txt
   

   Finally I made a shell script that starts xwindows with kde.

xfig 3.2.2 cygwin-b20.1

I downloaded the sofware following the link from the following page that describes the fig format and some of the applications that can read and write the format. After my installation I learned that there is an installation guide for anolder version of xfig, it might be informative.

The binary installation of xfig v 3.2.2 for the cygwin release also includes transfig which is very convenient. The installation of the binary distribution was quite simple I just unzipped and untared it. There was one small problem occured and that was that the binary distribution was installed in another directory X11R6.4 so thats why I tared the files once again and removed the X11R6.4 directory and untared everything in the X11R6 directory.

cd /usr
ln -s X11R6 X11R6.4
cd /
gunzip /cygdrive/d/Home/eriksson/cygwin/xfig/xfig-3.2.2-cygwin-b20.1-bin.tar.gz
tar -xvf /cygdrive/d/Home/eriksson/cygwin/xfig/xfig-3.2.2-cygwin-b20.1-bin.tar
cd /usr/X11R6.4/
tar -cvf ../xfig.tar .
cd ..
rm -R X11R6.4
cd X11R6
tar -xvf ../xfig.tar

Now to start xfig it is necessary to follow the following procedure.

  Start the Xserver (in my case i use PC-Xware).
  Then start cygwin.
  Finally in cygwin start xfig with:  xfig &

xfig 3.2.3d cygwin 1.3

1. I downloaded the binary files from Pierr Humblets page for the following version xfig 3.2.3d cygwin 1.3. The files were downloaded to C:\DnLdPr\Cygwin\xfig\.
2. Started cygwin and ran the following commands

   cd /cygdrive/c/DnLdPr/Cygwin/xfig
   gunzip xfig-3.2.3d-cygwin-1.3-bin.tar.gz
   pushd /
   tar -xvf /cygdrive/c/DnLdPr/Cygwin/xfig/xfig-3.2.3d-cygwin-1.3-bin.tar
   popd
   gzip xfig-3.2.3d-cygwin-1.3-bin.tar
   

3. Started the X-server which nowadays is XFree86 under cygwin.

   cd ~
   startxwin.sh
   xfig&
   

4. I have also added the following alias to by .bash_profile which sets the some default status flags and the appearance of xfig that I am used to.

   alias xfig="xfig -lat -po -me -spec -startg 3 -startfo 10 -but_ 3"
   

Ispell 3.2.06

1. Downloaded the last version of ispell for cygwin, see for example Pierre Humblet's ftp page. For a current version of the package
2. I untared the ispell package in /usr/local so that the binary ispell file goes into /usr/local/bin.
3. Copied cygwin1.dll from /usr/bin to /usr/local/bin.
4. Added C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin to the path.

Ispell 4_v03 2001-04-??

1. Uncompressed the zipped files into the directory C:\Programs\ispell4
2. Copied the file "ispell" to C:\Programs\emacs-20.7\info\
3. Added the following line to "C:\Programs\emacs-20.7\info\dir"
   "* ispell v4: (ispell). GNU ispell version 4 for NT Emacs"
4. Copied the files "ispell4.el" into "C:\Programs\emacs-20.7\site-lisp" and byte compiled it using "M-x byte-compile-file" in Emacs.
5. Added the following lines to my .emacs file so that emacs will know where ispell and the dictionarys are positioned.

   ;;--------------
   ;;   ispell4:
   ;;-------------
   (autoload 'ispell-word "ispell4" 
     "Check spelling of word at or before point" t)
   (autoload 'ispell-complete-word "ispell4" 
     "Complete word at or before point" t)
   (autoload 'ispell-region "ispell4" 
     "Check spelling of every word in the region" t)
   (autoload 'ispell-buffer "ispell4" 
     "Check spelling of every word in the buffer" t)
   (setq ispell-command "C:/Programs/ispell4/exe/ispell.exe"
         ispell-look-dictionary "C:/Programs/ispell4/ispell.words"
         ispell-look-command "C:/Programs/ispell4/exe/look.exe"
         ispell-command-options (list "-d" "C:/Programs/ispell4/ispell.dict")
         )
   

6. Added some minor things that followed from the file "ispell_port.html" that comes along with the ispell installation files.

Aspell .33.5 alpha (2001-07-16)

After installing XEmacs my ispell did not work properly so I tried to install Aspell. With this alpha installation spelling works fine except for that there is a problem when spell checking documents in latex mode in XEmacs. Symptom: the program crashes and Norton Crash guard makes an error log. There is also a bug reported on this crash on SourceForge I personally think that this bug depends on that regexps are sent to ispell in the tex-specific-mode that ispell.el generates.

During the installation I just followed the instructions in the documentation files.

1. Downloaded the file aspell-.33.5-win32-i386.zip from SourceForge.
2. Unzipped everything into C:/aspell/.
3. Added C:/aspell/ to the path.
4. Added the following line to my init.el

   (setq-default ispell-program-name "aspell")

5. Now spelling works in plain text files, and spelling from the command line prompt.

Swap caps control keys (2001-08-01)

1. Downloaded the registry file.
2. Studied the registry file (in Notepad), to see that it was not corrupted.
3. Ran the registry file.
4. Restarted the computer.

ghostscript (2002-11-??)

1. Added D:\Programs\Aladdin\gs7.03\bin
2. Added the variable GS_LIB

ps2pdf

1. Added the path to ghostscripts lib-directory to the path. (For Win2k this is done in Environmental variables under the System program in the control panel and system). For my case I added

   C:\Programs\Aladdin\gs7.03\lib

   to the path.
2. The shell-scripts call the function gs which on a pc corresponds to gswin32c.exe. Therefore I finally had to change the file C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\gs to point to the correct location and version of my ghostscript. In particular I changed the following line

   GHOSTSCRIPT="/cygdrive/c/program files/Aladdin/gs6.01/bin/gswin32c.exe"
   	  

   to read the following text

   GHOSTSCRIPT="/cygdrive/c/Programs/Aladdin/gs7.03/bin/gswin32c.exe"
   

LaTeX2HTML under cygwin (2002-03-20)

1. Downloaded the netpbm files for cygwin from Pierre Humblet (he also have the good versions of xfig for cygwin).
2. Installed the netpbm version 9.24 according to the installation instruction in the README file. Then I moved all (executable-)files from /usr/local/bin/netpbm to the /usr/local/bin directory that is included in the path. Finally I removed the empty netpbm directory.

   cd /
   tar -xzf /cygdrive/c/Downloads/LaTeX-related/netpbm-9.24-cygwin-1.3-bin.tar
   cd usr/local/bin/netpbm
   mv * ..
   cd ..
   rmdir netpbm/

3. Downloaded the version V99.1 from a server, like this one.
4. Uncompressed the files to the directory /usr/local/latex2html

   cd /usr/local
   tar -xvf /cygdrive/c/Downloads/LaTeX-related/latex2html/l2h99_1.tar

5. Edited the files latex2html, texexpand, pstoimg, configure-pstoimg and install-test and makemap, so that the point to the right directory where my perl executable is, changed the first line from #!/usr/local/bin/perl to #!/usr/bin/perl.
6. Ran the configuration script

   cd /usr/local/latex2html
   ./install-test

   (during this procedure it is important that netpbm is included in the path). During the configuration I choose the option to generate the gif-files.

Sketch 0.6.14 (2002-10-07)

Python Image Library (PIL) 2002-10-07

1. Installed python for cygwin distribution, it is directly available from the installer at cygwin.
2. Installed python imaging library (PIL) under cygwin, the source was downloaded from pythonware.com and unziped and untared under /usr/local/src.

   cd /usr/local/src
   gunzip Imaging-1.1.3.tar.gz
   tar -xvf Imaging-1.1.3.tar
   cd Imaging-1.1.3
   

3. When compiling I noticed that the directory structure was hard-coded for the X11 include files, therefore I added a symbolic link at /usr/include/X11

   ln -s /usr/X11R6/include/X11 /usr/include/X11

4. Under cygwin the filename for the tcl-library file that is linked with it has also changed from libtcl8.0.a to libtc80.a so I made a minor change in the Makefile.

   From:
   -L/usr/local/lib -ltcl8.0 -ltk8.0
   to
   -L/usr/local/lib -ltcl80 -ltk80
   

5. Finally I compiled the python image library PIL successfully with the "big script"

   ./BUILDME
   

Sketch 2002-10-07

1. Downloaded sketch from sourceforge and unzipped and untared it into /usr/local/src.
2. Followed the instructions in INSTALL-file and moved some files from PIL to /usr/inlcude/python2.2/Extensions, see last item in the list for the code.
3. Once again the tcl library files had the wrong names in the cygwin distribution so I had to change the filenames in the setup.py script.

   From:
   for version in ["8.3", "8.2",  "8.1",  "8.0"]:
   To:
   for version in ["8.3", "8.2",  "8.1",  "80"]:
   

4. The interprocess communication wasn't installed under cygwin when I did this installation, so I added the cygipc package from kde2 at sourceforge.

   cd /
   tar -jxvf /cygdrive/c/DnLdPr/Cygwin/kde/cygipc-1.11-1.tar.bz2
   

5. Then I tried to compiled and installed sketch following the instructions in the INSTALL-file distributed with the package.

   cd /usr/local/src/sketch-0.6.14/
   ./setup.py configure
   mkdir /usr/include/python2.2/Extensions
   cp ../Imaging-1.1.3/libImaging/ImConfig.h /usr/include/python2.2/Extensions/
   cp ../Imaging-1.1.3/libImaging/ImPlatform.h /usr/include/python2.2/Extensions/
   cp ../Imaging-1.1.3/libImaging/Imaging.h /usr/include/python2.2/Extensions/
   ./setup.py configure
   ./setup.py build
   

   But this fails and in the Pax-subdirectory I get the following error for the file tkwinobject.o and now my patience is exhausted

   running 'make' in Pax
   gcc -DUSE_DL_IMPORT -DNDEBUG -g -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -I/usr/include/python2.2 -I/usr/include/python2.2    -I/usr/include/ -I/usr/include/ -I/usr/X11R6/include -c ././tkwinobject.c -o ./tkwinobject.o
   ././tkwinobject.c:851: initializer element is not constant
   ././tkwinobject.c:851: (near initialization for `TkWinType.ob_type')
   make: *** [tkwinobject.o] Error 1
   exiting because of errors
   

   the same goes for a file in the Filter-directory

   gcc -DUSE_DL_IMPORT -DNDEBUG -g -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -I/usr/include/python2.2 -I/usr/include/python2.2    -c ././filterobj.c -o ./filterobj.o
   ././filterobj.c:947: initializer element is not constant
   ././filterobj.c:947: (near initialization for `FilterType.ob_type')
   make: *** [filterobj.o] Error 1
   

xemacs

gnumex package

starting cvs

1. First I set the CVSROOT to /home/CVSROOT/ in .bash_profile

   export CVSROOT=/cygdrive/c/home/CVSROOT/ # for bash
   setenv CVSROOT /cygdrive/c/home/CVSROOT/ # if you use tcsh
   

2. Then I initialized the complete cvs repository by running the command

   cvs init

   This is only done once for each repository.
3. Then I added my model library to the CVS repository.

   cvs import -m "Imported source files" VehiclePro VehiclePro start
   

• To check out a package

  cvs checkout PACKAGE_NAME

• To commit your changes to a package.

  cvs commit [FILE_NAME]

• To update your local copy from the repository.