On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 6:29 PM, Terry Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't advise anyone to try and get anti-aliased fonts working in > Linux (Ubuntu) by compiling python against Tk8.5, there's too much risk > of messing things up. But I think I have it working now, so if you > really want to... > > Note: I upgraded to 8.04 because my attempts to get this working on > 7.10 had messed that install up so badly I decided to abandon it. > > Install 8.04, and then, before you do anything else much: > > - install (using synaptic) Tk8.5 and its dev package > > - download Python 2.5.2 tar ball configure it like this: > > ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-unicode=ucs4 > make > make install > > The ucs4 bit is, I think, the magic bullet. By default the tar ball > uses ucs2, but ubuntu uses ucs4, so all ubuntu's packages break, at > least those with compile C code (.so) components. ucs2/ucs4 are > pythons approach to utf8/utf16 encodings. > > > Packages which ubuntu thinks depend on tk8.4, like PIL, ImageTk, tkcvs > etc., you will need to build from source, but others should work ok. > > Or just wait for python 2.6/3.0 :-) > > Cheers -Terry Just a data point - I did this on Ubuntu 8.04, python 2.6a3, and trunk leo, and leo works & has antialiased fonts (albeit with too large size by default). It's probably safer to build python 2.6 than 2.5, which may have a slight chance of messing with system python 2.5. Obviously, you should delete the link from python -> python2.6, and invoke leo manually with python 2.6 for extra safety. And, you should probably install it under normal /usr/local prefix rathen than /usr. I.e. don't do this: > - cd /usr/bin; rm python; ln -s python2.5 python > > The tar ball install hardlinks these two files, and the ubuntu system > checks to make sure that /usr/bin/python is a *symbolic* link to > python2.5 -- Ville M. Vainio - vivainio.googlepages.com blog=360.yahoo.com/villevainio - g[mail | talk]='vivainio' --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To post to this group, send email to leo-editor@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
