Installing Bibledit 0.9 on Ubuntu 5.04

Summary

  1. Install the required packages.
  2. Install sqlite3 from source.
  3. Install bibledit from source.
  4. Install fop.

Installing the libraries

It is assumed that bibledit will be installed on a standard installation of the operating system. As such an installation does not provide all what bibledit needs, development tools and libraries have to be installed.
The installer will download some packages from the internet and take a while to update the system. Close the window when through.

Installing sqlite3


Installing bibledit

To start bibledit, type bibledit

Installing fop

The "Linux (self extracting file)" was chosen, which gave us a file called jre-1_5_0_04-linux-i586.bin in the home directory. Make a note of the directory where Java got installed. In this case this is jr1.5.0_04.
Make a note of the directory where fop got installed. In this case this is fop-0.20.5.
In bibledit, under menu Preferences, Formatting Objects Processor, enter the directory where Java is installed, and where fop is installed. Ensure to give the full path, by using the two Open buttons.


Bibledit is now ready for use.