Slackware Linux System
Changes and Additions
April 2000
Nedit
Nedit "Nirvana Editor" home
The current release is 5.1.1.
5.0.2 is currently installed August 2000
Pilot-Link
Pilot-Link home page
Installed release is 0.9.4 The available RPM is 0.9.3
J-Pilot
J-pilot home page
Downloaded 0.98.1 into /disk2/disk2/downloads
Requirements
- GTK+ 1.2 We have 1.2.6
- glib 1.2 We have 1.2.6
- Pilot-Link We have it. See above
See INSTALL instructions in the jpilot-0.98.1 directory
Installed into /usr/local/bin on Wed May 24 23:13:36 2000
Quanta+ A KDE based HTML editor
Perl Graphics Drawing Module
The GD.pm module can be found at the CPANsite. The version installed is 1.27. All of the software required to support
this module was downloaded and built in the /disk2/downloads/perl/GD directory tree.
Requirements for the GD module are:
- Perl 5.004 or higher
- The gd graphics library, version 1.6.3 or higher
- The PNG graphics library. It has moved several times. You may have to search for it.
- The zlib compression library
- The FreeType font rendering library for TrueType fonts (optional)
- The jpeg photo quality image compression library
- The xpm library is required, and is usually part of the slackware distribution
The required software packages were installed in bottom up order and placed in /usr/local/ . . .
These additional modules were installled as well from CPAN:
- GDGraph - a package to generate charts, using Lincoln Stein's GD.pm.
- GDTextUtil - Text utilities for use with the GD drawing package.
All Perl modules are installed into the /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl directory tree.
Perl Least Squares Linear Regression module
The Statistics::OLS module can be found at the CPANsite. The version installed is 0.04.
There is no additional software required.
All Perl modules are installed into the /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl directory tree.