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FontForge install procedures<BR>
<SMALL>for unix/linux based systems</SMALL>
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<STRONG><FONT color="red">I no longer provide pre-built packages. You may
either compile from source or download a package from another site (most
linux distributors will have a fontforge package).</FONT></STRONG>
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<A HREF="#rpm">Installing from an rpm</A> (linux)
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<A NAME="Installing">Installing</A> from a pre-built package
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<A NAME="Obtaining">Obtaining</A> one of my pre-built packages
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I used to post pre-built packages for i386 linux systems and for Sparc Solaris
systems. These can still be found on
<A HREF="http://sourceforge.net/projects/fontforge/files/">sourceforge's
file release system</A>. <STRONG>But they are out of date now.</STRONG> There's
a certain amount of pother involved in using this system, but you get the
file eventually.
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If you follow the
<A HREF="http://sourceforge.net/projects/fontforge/files/fontforge-executables">link
above </A>you will end up on a page showing many releases of FontForge for
many systems<BR>
in most cases you will want the most recent release.
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Then click on the executable package you want to download:
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For i386 linux you will want the rpm file for the i386 (This happens to have
been built on RedHat 9, but it should work on any i386 linux system that
supports rpm -- RedHat, Fedora, Suse, Mandrake, etc.)
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For Sparc Solaris you will want the tar.bz2 file for sparc.
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Then you have the joy of choosing a mirror site (pick one that's on the same
continent you are) and click on the little icon in the download column
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Then you wait. After a bit you get another copy of this same page. After
an even longer time your browser notices that you've started a download.
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<A NAME="Elsewhere">Obtaining</A> a package from another source
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Most of the linux distributions have packages for fontforge. These will often
be a little older than my packages, but perhaps more stable. I shall not
try to provide a complete list, but I am aware of the following sites:
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<A HREF="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/fontforge.html">debian</A>
-- has builds for (alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, hurd-i386, i386, ia64, m68k,
mips, mipsel, ppc, s390, sparc)
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<A HREF="ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/fonts/fontforge/README.html">netbsd</A>
-- has builds for (alpha, i386, ppc, sparc, x86_64)
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<A HREF="http://www.rpmfind.com/">rpmfind</A> -- will point you toward builds
for Fedora, Suse, Mandrake, and others
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Apostolos Syropoulos has a Solaris x86 package at
<A HREF="http://www.sunfreepacks.com/">his site</A>
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<A HREF="mac-install.html">Mac OS/X </A>-- Although the Mac is now a unix
system its install procedure is sufficiently different that I have a page
devoted to it specifically.
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Installing from an <A NAME="rpm">rpm</A>
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The i386 package I provide, and many of the linux packages others provide
are "rpm" files.
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Installing an rpm package is relatively straight forward. You will need to
be root. Move to the directory containing the downloaded rpm, and then type
(do not type the "$" or "#"):
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="Gray"># </FONT>rpm -i fontforge-*.rpm
</PRE>
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If you've already installed fontforge and are updating an earlier version
then you should type:
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="Gray"># </FONT>rpm -U fontforge-*.rpm
</PRE>
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Installing from an <A NAME="executable">executable</A> tarball
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The solaris package I provide is a bzipped tarball (that is, it has an extension
of ".tar.bz2"). You will probably need to be root for some of this process.
Move to the directory containing the downloaded tarball and type (do not
type the "$" or "#"):
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="Gray">$ </FONT>bunzip2 fontforge-*.tar.bz2
<FONT COLOR="Gray">$ </FONT>tar xf fontforge-*.tar
<FONT COLOR="Gray">$ </FONT>cd fontforge
<FONT COLOR="Gray">$ </FONT>su
<FONT COLOR="Gray"># </FONT>./doinstall
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(Older versions may have an extension of .tgz. In this case you would replace
the first two lines with "<CODE><FONT COLOR="Gray">$ </FONT>tar xfz
fontforge-*.tgz</CODE>")
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<FONT COLOR="Red"><STRONG>Caveat:</STRONG></FONT> My packages generally install
to /usr/local, and this may not be in your default PATH. You may need to
add a line like
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<PRE>PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin ; export PATH
</PRE>
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to your ~/.bashrc file (or equivalent if you use a different shell).
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What's in a <A NAME="package">package</A>
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Just in case you are interested. My packages contain:
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fontforge -- the executable itself
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libgunicode*.so -- a shared library containing functions for manipulating
UCS2 strings, and various data about unicode code points.
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libgdraw*.so -- the graphics and widget library used by fontforge
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pfaedit-ui.{es,fr,it,ja,ru} -- translated strings to provide a user interface
for non-English users.
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*.cidmap -- not present in all packages. These are useful when editing CID-keyed
Asian fonts.
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README*
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fontforge.1 -- a manual page for fontforge
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<A NAME="Ports">Ports</A> that I am aware of
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FontForge has been ported to the following systems (at some point in its
life)
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Linux (obviously, (redhat, debian, suse, mandrake),
386,spark,arm,alpha,ia64,m68k,mips,mipsel,powerpc,s390)
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Solaris
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Irix
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FreeBsd
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NetBsd
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Mac OS/X
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OpenVMS7.3 for Alpha
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<A HREF="http://cygwin.com/">cygwin</A> with X running on top of MS windows.
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