Hi Steve,
Maurice answered already so I just try to append to his information.
1. I'm using scid on Ubuntu Linux 19.04. The web site used to have a
document for installing the latest there? I no longer see this. Don't
remember how I previously installed it.
You can either download from
https://sourceforge.net/projects/scid/files/Scid/Scid%204.7/
the file scid-4.7.0_x64_linux.tar.gz which seems to have all you would
need - it is 129.8 MB strong. I assume you get all the spelling files and
pictures.
As I have not an x64 sytem but a x32 system (Slackware 14.2) I downloaded
the file scid-code-4.7.0.zip (15.8 MB).
I unpacked the files in a directory.
Than I opened a terminal and went ino this directory.
With "./configure" I configured the program.
With "make" I compiled it.
After that I had a working Scid 4.7 program in this directory that I can
start from the command line with "scid".
I assume that you will make a shortcut/launcher/"whatever it is called in
Ubuntu" ;-) on your desktop.
A note: Scid needs two programs to work: Tcl and TK8.6. As you are
running a version of scid I assume you've got them already.
There is a german Ubuntu website that could help here (with automatic
translation): https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Scid/
And there is of course a website from scid itself:
https://sourceforge.net/p/scid/wiki/CompileScid/
2. I'm sure I've been using scid suboptimally but can't figure out the right
way. I've mainly been working with .pgn files. Lately I wonder what is the
function of "saving" the database? It creates no files that I can see.
Where is the function that saves the "clipbase" database to disk? And so,
even though I dutifully "save" the database, I have to also export a game to
a .pgn file to retain my work. What am I missing?
Sorry. You can't save the clipbase.
You can do the same things there like in any other database but it will be
emptied when you leave the program.
If you want your changes to stay permanently you should copy these game
files from the clipbase into one of your own databases as Maurice
suggested.
You can do a lot of things with databases. One thing is, that a scid
database will open faster than a pgn file with the same amount of game
files.
3. The Import.html help file mentions a program called pgnscid, but it
doesn't seem to exist on my system. Where should it be?
As Maurice already wrote, this was necessary in former versions of scid.
Now you can open pgn files with 3.44 M files (maybe more, but this is my
biggest database ;-) ).
To import files from a pgn file to your own database:
Open your own database.
Click "Database" -> Import File(s) of PGN Games...
The files will be loaded into your database and stay there permanently.
Hope this helps.
Kind regards
Werner
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