http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/debian/AREADME 23 Apr 2004 A.Sloman http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs/ This directory contains a version of poplog packaged for Debian Users by Brent Fulgham as explained below. ======================================================================= Updated 18 Mar 2006 The standard poplog distribution for poplog version 15.6 will work if the instructions given in this file are followed: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/v15.6/ People who prefer to install a .deb package should ensure that they first run this command to get required libraries that may not be installed: apt-get install build-essential gcc motif3 csh (or try lesstif if you can't find motif3) Then make motif accessible where debian seems to need X11 libraries: cd /usr/lib ln -s /usr/X11R6/libXm.so* . It may be preferable to use the latest version here: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/v15.6/ ======================================================================= Updated 14 Mar 2005 New version copied from Brent's Web site, and accessible here as: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/debian/poplog_15.6-1_i386.deb 24301862 bytes Mar 13 23:54 Brent's directory http://people.debian.org/~bfulgham/poplog/debian/ is the first place to look for the most recent debian version of poplog. See also http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/freepoplog.html http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/poplog.info.html http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/debian/installing From bfulg@pacbell.net Fri Apr 23 17:18:31 2004 Return-path: Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 09:18:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Brent Fulgham Subject: Poplog Debian Package Available Aaron (and others), I have a Debian package of Poplog available at my web site: http://people.debian.org/~bfulgham/poplog/debian The only file of intereset to most people is the *.deb file, but the other components are there for what it's worth. (Aaron, if you think it useful, perhaps you could copy the poplog_15.53e-1_i386.deb into the debian directory at your main poplog site.) The advantage of using this version over the standard Birmingham tarball is that it declares package dependencies on libraries required to run Poplog, integrates the Emacs mode into Debian's core emacs package, and sets things up such that typical Debian and Linux tools can find the libraries, documentation, and other goodies using standard tools. The main thing I dislike about the current package is that it is not generated from source files, but is rather just a repackaging of Aaron's tarball. This leads to two problems: 1. The process of moving the files around is something of a waste of time (though this can easily be scripted to avoid the tedium). 2. This package does not provide a good platform for attempting to support other architectures under Debian (e.g., Alpha and Sparc/Sun systems) that are known to work in other configurations. In a perfect world it would be possible to bootstrap Poplog under new architectures through some published technique. Perhaps this is currently possible (I have not spent enough time searching this out). At any rate, I'm quite happy with my initial impression of the package, and would welcome comments from any brave Debian users willing to try installing it. Thanks, -Brent