5 Copyright (c) the Notion team 2010-2011.
6 Copyright (c) Tuomo Valkonen 1999-2009.
11 Building and installing
12 -----------------------
16 https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/notion/index.php?title=Development
18 1. Get the source code. Make sure all submodules are present and up to date.
19 git clone git://notion.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/notion/notion
24 2. Make sure you have the following tools and libraries installed (along
25 with, of course, standard X11 and libc stuff).
27 * GNU make <http://www.gnu.org/software/make/>
28 * Lua 5.1 <http://www.lua.org/>
29 * gettext <http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/>
31 On Ubuntu the following packages are required:
32 build-essential lua5.1 liblua5.1-0-dev libx11-dev libxext-dev libsm-dev gettext
34 build-essential lua5.2 liblua5.2-dev xorg-dev gettext
36 If you also build the RandR and Xinerama modules, you will need:
37 libxinerama-dev libxrandr-dev
39 3. Edit `system.mk` to suit your system. Most settings should be autodetected.
41 4. If you want to build some extra modules now or do not want to build
42 some of the standard modules, edit `modulelist.mk`.
44 5. Run `make`. Note that `make` here refers to GNU make which is usually
45 named `gmake` on systems with some other implementation of make as
48 6. Run `make install`, as root if you set `$PREFIX` in `system.mk` to a
49 directory that requires those privileges.
51 YOU SHOULD NOT SKIP THIS STEP unless you know what you are doing. Notion
52 will refuse to start if it can not find all the necessary uncorrupt
53 configuration files either in `$PREFIX/etc/notion/` or in `~/.notion/`.
55 7. How to best set up `startx` or whatever to start Notion instead of your
56 current window manager depends on your system's setup. A good guess
57 is creating or modifying an executable shell script `.xsession` in your
58 home directory to start Notion. This should usually (but not always) work
59 if you're using some X display/login manager. If `~/.xsession` does not
60 help and you're not using a display manager, modifying `~/.xinitrc` or
61 creating one based on your system's `xinitrc` (wherever that may be;
62 use `locate`) may be what you need to do. Note that unlike `.xsession`,
63 a `.xinitrc` should usually do much more setup than simply start a few
64 programs of your choice.
66 Please see the file `RELNOTES` for additional release-specific installation
67 and configuration notes.
70 Some optional installation steps
71 --------------------------------
73 1. The F5 and F6 keys expect to find the program `run-mailcap` to select
74 a program to view a file based on its guessed MIME type. Unless you are
75 using Debian, most likely you don't have it, but any other similar
76 program (or just plain old text editor) will do as well -- just modify the
77 bindings in `cfg_notioncore.lua`. Of course, if you don't want to use the
78 feature at this time or never, you may simply skip this step. If you want
79 to use `run-mailcap`, it can be found from the following address, as a
80 source tarball as well:
82 <http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/net/mime-support.html>
84 2. Notion supports caching known man-pages in a file for faster man-page
85 completion in the F1 man page query. To enable this feature, you must
86 periodically run a cronjob to build this list. To create a system-wide
87 man page cache, run `crontab -e` (might vary depending on platform) as
88 root and enter a line such as follows:
90 15 05 * * * $SHAREDIR/ion-completeman -mksyscache
92 Replace `$SHAREDIR` with the setting from `system.mk`. This example
93 runs daily at 05:15, but you may modify the run times to your needs;
94 see the crontab manual.
96 If you can't or do not want to build a system-wide man page cache, run
97 `crontab -e` as your normal user and replace `-mksyscache` with
98 `-mkusercache` above. The cache file will be `~/.notion/mancache`.
100 It may also be useful to run `ion-completeman` with the suitable
101 `-mk*cache` argument once manually to build the initial cache.
103 If the `MANPATH` environment variable is not set on your system and it
104 does not have the `manpath` command (or it does not print anything
105 sensible), you may also want to set the `ION_MANPATH` environment
106 variable to the list of paths where the system stores manual pages.
112 For help on modifying Notion's configuration files, PLEASE READ THE DOCUMENT
113 "Configuring and extending Notion with Lua" available from the Notion web page,
114 listed at the top of this file.
117 Questions, comments, problems?
118 ------------------------------
120 If the available documentation does not answer your question, please
121 post it to the mailing list. Details can be found on the Notion web page
122 listed at the top of this file.
128 Notion was written by the Notion team, based on Ion which was written by Tuomo
131 The dock module was written by Tom Payne and Per Olofsson.
133 `utils/ion-completefile/ion-completefile.c` is based on editline, (c)
134 1992 Simmule Turner and Rich Salz. See the file for details.
136 The code that `de/fontset.c` is based on seems to have been originally
137 written by Tomohiro Kubota, but see the file for details.
139 Various (minor) patches have been contributed by other individuals
140 unlisted here. See the mailing list archives and the darcs source
141 repository history at <http://iki.fi/tuomov/repos/>. For translators
142 see the individual `.po` files in `po/`.
144 The code in `de/unicode' (producing `de/precompose.c') is taken from
147 See `libtu/README` for code by others integrated into libtu.