Chuck Dupree schrieb:
Hi!
> Sorry if this is old hat, but I've looked around the web
> and haven't yet found any documentation on how to install
> Scid. I had the old version running on my system until
> about a week ago; but when I had to re-install (long
> story, not Scid-related) I lost Scid, and figured I'd get
> the latest.
Well the latest "official" seems to be 3.6.1 from
scid.sf.net and I'd guess that you still get that one with
your distribution.
> So how do I do that? Apparently I have to compile the
> program myself (why isn't there a package available from
> the repositories?).
Pascals "cool stuff" seems a bit "unofficial". But it works
great and offers a lot of cool features so you might want
that one :)
> I can do that, but given that the installation process is
> noticeably more sophisticated than for any other package
> I've installed on my Kubuntu system (Windows was trivial,
> but not Linux) I'd like to get at least a basic set of
> steps to follow.
The simplest is this provided you unpacked the tar-file and
got the scid/ source dir.
export PATH=.:$PATH
cd scid
./configure
make
./scid
If you can live with /usr/local as target you'd add a "make
install" after the make-call and could then use "scid" to
invoke it. But it is actually pretty simple and straight
forward. I'd just guess that you lack the dev-files on
Kubuntu. ?ubunut does not install much dev stuff. (I'm not
even sure the install the gcc by default.) And even on my
debian I've to add the tcl/tk-dev packages by hand.
It gets a bit involved if you want another path than
/usr/local or just the build-dir but even there it is almost
trivial as you can just cp the binaries created after the
make-call.
If necessary I could also post some bash-snippet that does
all the cp stuff I use to run scid from /opt/chess
installing it to /opt/chess/stow/scid-3.6.20 (using stow to
manage the linking), but it is barely more than the above +
some cp-calls.
--
Kind regards,
Alexander Wagner
Universitaetsbibliothek Ilmenau
Langewiesener Str. 37
98693 Ilmenau
Tel.: 03677/69-4521 , Fax.: 03677/69-4617
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