Summary
- Install the required packages.
- Install sqlite3 from source.
- Install bibledit from source.
- 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.
- Click Applications, at the
top left.
- Click System Tools.
- Click Add/Remove Programs.
- Provide the user's password, if asked for it..
- Under Add or Remove Applications, click button Advanced.
- Insert the installation DVD.
- In the Package Manager, click Development.
- At the right side, mark the following package for installation:
g++.
- When it asks Mark additional required changes, click Mark.
- At the left side, scroll down a bit and click Libraries -
Development.
- At the right side, mark the following package for installation:
libgtk2.0-dev.
- When it asks Mark additional required changes, click Mark.
- Click button Apply.
- When it ask to apply the following changes, click Apply.
The installer will download some packages from the internet and take a
while to update the system. Close the window when through.
Installing sqlite3
- Download a version of sqlite3, e.g. sqlite-3.2.1.tar.gz, from www.sqlite.org.
- Open a terminal by clicking Applications, System Tools, Terminal.
- To verify the package is there, type command ls (followed
by Enter).
- To unpack bibledit type tar zxf
sqlite-3.2.1.tar.gz
- To enter the newly created directory, type cd
sqlite-3.2.1
- To configure the sqlite, type ./configure --prefix=/usr
- Watch many messages, but no errors.
- To compile sqlite, type make
- Watch many messages, but no errors.
- To install sqlite, type sudo make
install, and provide the password.
- Watch many messages, but no errors.
- To go back to the home directory, type cd
Installing bibledit
- Download package bibledit-0.9.tar.gz
to the home directory.
- In the terminal, to verify the package is there, type command ls
(followed
by Enter).
- To unpack bibledit type tar zxf
bibledit-0.9.tar.gz
- To enter the newly created directory, type cd
bibledit-0.9
- To configure bibledit, type ./configure
- Watch many messages, but no errors.
- To compile bibledit, type make
- Watch many messages, but no errors.
- To install bibledit, type sudo make
install, and provide the password (if asked).
- Watch many messages, but no errors.
- To go back to the home directory, type cd
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.
- In the terminal, to verify the package is there, type ls
- To install the package, type sh
jre-1_5_0_04-linux-i586.bin
- Agree to the license and complete installing Java.
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.