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Please read the COPYING file first.
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If building from source, also read the INSTALL file (at least through the
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"SUPER-SHORT VERSION") before going further.
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Requirements
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The following packages *MUST* be installed in order for Gramps to work:
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Python 2.2 or greater
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Gnome 2.0 or greater
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PyGTK2 1.99.14 or greater
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Gnome-python 1.99.14 or greater
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PyXML 0.7.1 or greater
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Many distributions already provide PyXML, but if your
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installation does not have it, you can get it from
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http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=6473
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The following packages are *STRONGLY RECOMMENDED* to be installed:
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Reportlab Enable creation of PDF documents
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http://www.reportlab.com
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Python Imaging Library (PIL)
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Enable generation of thumbnails for images
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http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil
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If, for some reason, you can't/don't want to install PIL, at least make sure
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that ImageMagick is available on your system: http://www.imagemagick.org
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WITHOUT eithr PIL or ImageMagick *YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO USE THUMBNAILS*
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for any of your images.
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Documentation
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Gramps documentation is supplied in the form of XML files, which will be
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installed in the GNOME help path(*). Gnome help browser (Yelp) uses these
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(properly installed) XML files to display the documentation.
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Of course, current HTML documentation can also be found on the gramps website,
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http://gramps.sourceforge.net/help.html
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(*) More precisely, they are installed
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in ${prefix}/share/gramps/gnome/help/gramps,
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where ${prefix} is given by the --prefix= option
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to configure (defaults to /usr).
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Building on non-Linux systems: i18n support and GNU make
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--------------------------------------------------------
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Linux has libintl (GNU gettext) built-in the C library. Other systems
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are likely to have libintl as a separate or optional library. Also,
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other systems may have a different make utility.
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On those systems, like FreeBSD, you must tell configure where to find
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the libintl library and the libintl.h include file:
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CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include -L/usr/local/lib" ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
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Once you have done this, if make fails, use gmake (the name FreeBSD
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gives to GNU make) instead.
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Donald Allingham
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dallingham@users.sourceforge.net
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