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Ted, an easy rich text processor
 
Ted for Linux: copyright and disclaimer
How to install Ted
Compiling Ted from source
Author
 
 
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Ted for Linux: copyright and disclaimer
Ted is free software. By making Ted freely available, I want to contribute to the propagation of Linux as a viable platform for technical computer enthusiasts. As Ted is free software, I assume no responsibility for the consequences of using it. It is up to you to decide whether Ted suits your purpose or not. Ted is distributed with absolutely no warranty under the terms of the GNU Public License.
 
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How to install Ted
The installation of Ted depends on the platform and on the kind of distribution. Binary distributions for Intel ix86 Linux are available from the download site http://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/editors/ted. The distribution comes in the form of compressed tar archives and as Red Hat package manager (RPM) packages and Debian installer packages (DEB). Binary distributions for other platforms might be available. For more or more recent information refer to the Ted web site http://www.nllgg.nl/Ted. All binary installer .tar.gz packages are packaged relative to /.
 
To install Ted or one of the localization packages from an RPM package, log in as root, (Or any system user with sufficient permissions to install packages.) and give the command rpm -i <package-details>.rpm . To upgrade from a previous version of Ted give the command rpm -U <package-details>.rpm. The corresponding command on Debian based Linux versions like Ubuntu is dpkg -i <package-details>.deb. It takes care of installing as well as of upgrading. I used Ubuntu 12.04 to build the *.deb and *.tar.gz files and fedora 17 to build the *.rpm files. A Solaris build can be installed with pkgadd -d <package-details>.pkg.
 
To compile Ted from source. Refer to the compilation instructions at the end of this document.
 
Overview of the different packages:
 
Package
Package files
Basic binary package for Intel Linux. (Includes American spelling)
Source1
Original Documentation and Release Notes
rtf to pdf script
rtf to PostScript script
rtf to HTML script
rtf to EPUB ebook script
rtf to plain text script
Dutch spelling and messages
British spelling
German spelling and messages.
Spanish spelling and messages
Argentinian Spanish spelling and messages
Portuguese spelling
Brazilian Portuguese messages
French spelling and messages.
Italian spelling and messages
Czech spelling and messages
Danish spelling and messages
Swedish spelling
Norwegian spelling and messages
Polish spelling and messages
Slovak spelling and messages
Hungarian messages
Malagasy messages and manual
Bulgarian spelling
Russian spelling
Croatian spelling
Finnish spelling
Translated Documentation
Spelling dictionary examples.2
Translated resource files for translators and those that like to install them by hand.
 
 
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Compiling Ted from source
To compile and link Ted, get the source code from the download site http://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/editors/ted. Unpack the archive and follow the instructions below. If you use other Unix versions than Linux, realize that the construction of a distribution package uses the gzip compression utility and the chown root:root syntax.
 
I want to express my gratitude to the authors of all the free software libraries I have used for Ted. Without them, a project like Ted would have been impossible.
 
To compile Ted on a debian based Linux based system you need the following development packages: build-essential, zlib1g-dev, libpcre3-dev, libx11-dev, libxpm-dev, libtiff4-dev, libjpeg62-dev, libpng12-dev, libgtk2.0-dev, libpaper-dev. Use apt-get intall to install them. The deb makefile target does this for you. On rpm based systems the packages are called gcc, zlib-devel, pcre-devel, libX11-devel, libXpm-devel, libtiff-devel, libjpeg-devel, libpng-devel, gtk2-devel, libpaper-devel. Use yum install to install them. Ted was compiled on the Solaris 11 live VM with the developer-gnu packages installed. Use pkg install developer-gnu to install them.
 
Unpacking the source archive results in a Ted-2.23 directory. To compile the executable simply issue the command make in the Ted-2.23 directory. There is no need to call configure as this is done by make. You can change some compilation options by editing the top level makefile. Refer to the comments in the top of the file. When make is successful, there is a Ted executable in the Ted directory. To make an installation package, call make package. On traditional Unix systems that do not not use gnu tar, this must be done as root. The installation package tedPackage/ted_<platform>.tar.gz is now ready. To install it on your machine, call make install. Installation must be done as root. (Or by a system user with sufficient permission to install software in /usr.) Those that cannot perform the last steps as root can call make private to get a private installation. The make private call will suggest the necessary modifications to your ~/.Ted.properties file to run from a private installation. The ultimate possibility is to copy the Ted executable to a suitable location and to unpack the relevant files from the tedPackage/TedBindist.tar archive. Refer to the sections on installation and configuration for details.
 
Note the deb and sysvpkg targets for packaged distributions in the root Makefile. To build the rpm package use rpmbuild -ta ted-2.23.tar.gz --rmsource or rpmbuild --rebuild ted-2.23-1.src.rpm if you like the Red Hat way. The rpmbuild program is part of the rpm-build package. Use yum install rpm-build to install it.
 
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Author

 
Mark de Does
http://www.mdedoes.com
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More or more recent information on Ted might be available from the Ted web site http://www.nllgg.nl/Ted. The latest versions and the source code from http://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/editors/ted.
P.S.
Please do not insert my mail address in web pages that refer to me or to Ted. Plain text email addresses are automatically harvested from the web to send unsollicited email. You can either refer to the web page or use an image.

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Please read the compilation instructions at the end of this document before you start compiling Ted. They are short and easy.
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Please refer to the explanation at the end of this document.