Chapter 1. Install Instructions

This section contains Instructions for the initial installation of Cronos II -0.2.2-22

1.1. Installing Cronos II

Cronos II Is built using the GNU Autoconf and Automake Tools and friends. Integration with Gnome is comprehensive.

You may also run this application under a "pure" GTK environment without Gnome. (Though you will need gnome libraries and gnome print for some features.)

In short Cronos II should be able to be installed anywhere the GIMP Tool Kit is available including ports of GTK to the Windows ™ Operating System.

To build and run Cronos II-0.2.2-22 you need to have the following libraries installed: If you are using a binary package e.g.. RPM or DEB please ignore this list. It should have been taken care of for you.

(my apologies to Windows™ Users I'm not sure what they need beyond GTK)

Please let me know so that I can update this manual. or see Section 4.5

1.1.1. Installation

Cronos II may arrived packaged in a number of formats.

The most likely are shown here:

  1. Gzipped Source Tar-balls

    These look like this

     Cronos II.-0.2.2-22.tar.gz

    See Section 1.1.2 for install instructions.

  2. Bzip2 Tar-balls

    This format is becoming more widely used, these will usually look like this:

     Cronos II-0.2.2-22.tar.bz2 

    See Bzipped for install instructions.

  3. Cronos II is also available as a Debian binary package ( Since most of the development team use Debian GNU/Linux )

    Cronos II-0.2.2-22_i386.deb

    There are official and unofficial (wild) packages. Instructions for these are at Debian Packages

  4. Finally Cronos II may be available as a Redhat Package Manager - Package.

    These RPM's should look like this:

    Cronos II.-0.2.2-22.ixxx.rpm

    Instructions for these are at Red Hat Packages

Note

If you are installing from tar balls please read the README and INSTALL files (at least) in the source. These are likely to be more up to date than this manual.

Other formats are possible not least of which are zip and debs. Support for these or other formats may be added should the demand for them warrant it.

1.1.2. GNU Zipped Source Packages

gzip

These are the most common method of distributing application packages (and other stuff ) in the UNIX / LINUX world.

To install Cronos II from the same directory as the package :

  1. [user@ X]#

     tar zxvf Cronos II-0.2.2-22.tar.gz

  2. [user@ X]#

    cd Cronos II-0.2.2-22

  3. [user @ Cronos II-0.2.2-22] #

     ./configure

  4. [user @Cronos II-0.2.2-22] #

     ./make

  5. [user @Cronos II-0.2.2-22] #

    su

  6. [user @Cronos II-0.2.2-22] #

     password: your-root-password

  7. [root @Cronos II-0.2.2-22] #

     ./make install

  8. [root @Cronos II-0.2.2-22] #

     exit

  9. [user @Cronos II-0.2.2-22] #

     cronos

Note

The text between" [ and ] "is a representation of your terminal prompt. Yours will be different to that shown and may change markedly when you "su" to root.

For further instruction and options for using configure and make commands please see the documentation in the tar ball.

Tip

#configure --help

# man make

1.1.3. Bzipped Tar Balls

This mode of distribution uses a powerful compression method ( # man bzip2 ) that is deliberately very similar to gzip at the command line. It is impressive how much size and download time can be saved using this compression method.

Installation with bzip2 is nearly identical to gnu-zip.

To install Cronos II from the same directory as the package :

  1. [user@ X]#

     tar Ixvf Cronos II-0.2.2-22.tar.bz2

  2. [user@ X]#

    cd Cronos II-0.2.2-22
       

  3. [user @ Cronos II-0.2.2-22]#

     ./configure

  4. [user @Cronos II-0.2.2-22]#

     ./make

  5. [user @Cronos II-0.2.2-22]#

    su

  6. [user @Cronos II-0.2.2-22]#

     password: your-root-password

  7. [root @Cronos II-0.2.2-22]#

    ./make install

  8. [root @Cronos II-0.2.2-22]#

     exit

  9. [user @Cronos II-0.2.2-22]#

     cronos

1.1.4. Red Hat Packages

These packages are used by many LINUX distributions as a simple and effective way of installing software and keeping issues like dependencies in order. Other distributions have their own equally useful approaches that achieve similar ends.

Installation may be undertaken from the command line,or a GUI front end to RPM like GNORPM . In all cases root level permissions are required to install system wide.

At the command line do the following as ROOT from the same directory as you have the package. :

  1. [root@x]#

           rpm -Uvh Cronos II-0.2.2-22
           

  2. [root@x]#

    exit

    or

     login 
    to your normal account

  3. [user@x]#

     cronos

Tip

As Cronos II tarballs include a spec file you may build your own RPM by typing the following from the command line:

(as root) [root@x]#

rpm -ta Cronos II-0.2.2-22.tar.gz

This should (all going well) build a package ready for you to install as a standard RPM as shown above.

1.1.5. Debian packages

Cronos II version 0.2.2 and hopefully later versions are now available from the unstable branch at your local ftp mirror.

 apt-get install  cronosII
should find you the latest Debian build.

There may also be unofficial (wild) debs available from the Cronos II download site.

To install Official Debian packages use

apt-get install cronosii
To install a downloaded Unofficial deb use:
dpkg -i Cronos II-0.2.2-22_i386.deb
or similar.

Please note that the unofficial and official packages may use slightly different package names. You may need to do an uninstall before moving to the other version.