HTMLpage Installation
Installation should be simple, as there is nothing to compile.
You have what is one of three types of packages.
1) A Slackware package
2) A source package
3) A binary distribution
1) Use your package manager of choice (installpkg, xpkgtool,
whatever..) Install directory is /opt/HTMLpage. Only extra
file is HTMLpage.sh, which is placed into /etc/profile.d.
This is done to put the path to the program:
/opt/HTMLpage/bin
into your system $PATH. This may seem intrusive, but in
fact is is done to avoid just that. Uninstall will remove
all remnants of the program without leaving any dangling
symlinks from an install script.
3rd party packages, I believe, belong in /opt, and
if you are "careless" enough to simply delete the
HTMLpage folder, the script in /etc/profile.d is smart
enough not to add the /opt/HTMLpage/bin to your path if
it is no longer there.
*** You must be ROOT to install the package.
The path will be updated when you reboot you computer --
until then you can go to /opt/HTMLpage and run
the program from there.
2) Talk about easy. Once the downloaded package in decompressed,
just put the folder wherever you want it to stay, then symlink
the HTMLpage.py file somewhere in your path.
*** Name the link "HTMLpage" (without the ".py" extension.)
IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT YOU MAKE THIS LINK!
3) Could it be easier than above? Well, yes. If you don't have
the required dependencies. Python, GTK and pyGTK are not
necessary to run the binary package. Aspell is NOT included,
but as stated below it is optional.
As with the source, put the HTMLpage folder wherever you
wish and symlink from the "HTMLpage" file to somewhere in
your path.
*** Name the link "HTMLpage" (without the ".py" extension.)
IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT YOU MAKE THIS LINK!
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Dependencies for the Slackware and source distributions:
python >= 2.4
GTK >= 2.6
pyGTK >= 2.4
aspell >= 0.60 (Optional -- if you want spell checking)