[opensource] PDF Editing

[Paul Betts]

Some notes of mine:

On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 12:03 -0500, Marc Uhrich wrote:
> 2. Uncompress the package run-> tar -zxvf packagename.tar.gz (for
> tar.gz)
or 'tar -xjvf packagename.tar.bz2' (note the 'j')

> 3. Read the README file distributed with the package. This will most
> likely have specific instructions that should be used if they vary
from
> my included steps 4,5, and 6.

To get the compiler and build tools, run:
sudo apt-get build-essential checkinstall && sudo apt-get build-dep gaim

(Why Gaim? Well, Gaim is a pretty typical GTK+ application; if you pull
in its build dependencies you'll have a lot of what you need)

> 4. In the new directory run-> ./configure (3,4,and 5 require that you
> have development tools installed)

Actually, a better idea is to run ./configure --prefix=/usr/local ; this
makes all the software you've installed manually in /usr/local. Since
this is a small number of programs, it's easier to keep track of then
digging through /usr.

> 5. In the new directory run-> make
> 6. In the new directory run-> make install

Actually, you want "sudo make install", but an even better idea on
Ubuntu is to run 'sudo checkinstall'. This will create a package based
on the program that you can remove later if you want.

> 7. Make a sandwich using rye bread with a meat and cheese of your
> choosing.

I prefer Swiss. Make sure to butter the bread too.

> 8. Toast and enjoy.
> Note: Steps 7 and 8 are optional but encouraged.

> A caveat is that the package may need libraries or other packages
> installed.  In which case, the configure or make will fail.  The
> necessity of these items will be outlined in the README making reading
> it a necessary evil.

Usually you can type "apt-cache search <package-name>" and get some
info, make sure to install the -dev package (like libnm-glib-dev for
example), you need this to compile stuff.

-- 
Paul Betts <bettsp at cse.ohio-state.edu>