Z/EVES (Linux) Installation

Z/Eves (Linux) Installation

Dr. Mark J. Sebern

Preparation

This installation procedure reflects a Red Hat Linux 9 system. Some adjustments may be needed for other Linux systems.

Sign the Z/Eves license agreement form and return it to the instructor.
Copy the SE381ToolCD directory tree from the installation CD to your home directory.
- cd
- cp -r /mnt/cdrom/SE381ToolCD .
Because you copied from CD, the resulting subtree will by default not have write access. If you later want to delete these files, you'll have to make them writeable:
- chmod -R ug+w SE381ToolCD

Tcl/Tk

Z/Eves requires old versions of Tcl and Tk. These versions must be installed before you can use Z/Eves. They can coexist with more current versions of the packages that may already be installed on your system.

These instruction presume you are getting the Tcl and Tk packages from the tools CD. You may also download them:

http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/8.0.html

You should be logged in as a normal user (not root) to begin this installation.

Copy the Tcl and Tk archives from the CD image to a working directory (e.g., ~/tcltk):
- mkdir ~/tcltk
- cd ~/tcltk
- cp ~/SE381ToolCD/LinuxSetup/TclTk/*.tgz .
Unpack the Tcl and Tk archives:
- tar xvfz tcl8.0.5.tar.gz
- tar xvfz tk8.0.5.tar.gz
This will create two directory trees under the ~/tcltk directory.
Change to the Tcl unix subdirectory, run the configuration script, and build the Tcl files:
- cd ~/tcltk/tcl8.0.5/unix/
- ./configure
- make
Become root and install the Tcl files:
- su
- Password: . . .
- make install
This will install Tcl files in /usr/local/lib and /usr/local/bin. When complete, press Ctrl-D to switch out of root mode.
The Tk build process requires the X Window System development files. Please make sure they are installed. You can install these files by selecting "X Software Development" in the Red Hat "Add/Remove Applications" utility, or by installing the appropriate package (e.g., XFree86-devel-4.3.0-2).
Change to the Tk unix subdirectory, run the configuration script, and build the Tk files:
- cd ~/tcltk/tk8.0.5/unix/
- ./configure
- make
Become root and install the Tk files:
- su
- Password: . . .
- make install
This will install Tk files in /usr/local/lib and /usr/local/bin. When complete, press to switch out of root mode.

Python

Z/Eves also requires an old version of Python. This version must be installed before you can use Z/Eves. It can coexist with more current versions of Python that may already be installed on your system.

These instruction presume you are getting the Python package from the tools CD. You may also download it:

http://www.python.org/1.5/

You should be logged in as a normal user (not root) to begin this installation.

Copy the Python archive from the CD image to a working directory (e.g., ~/python):
- mkdir ~/python
- cd ~/python
- cp ~/SE381ToolCD/LinuxSetup/Python/*.tgz .
Unpack the Python archive:
- tar xvfz py152.tgz
This will create a directory tree under the ~/python directory.
Change to the Python subdirectory, run the configuration script, and build the files (note that the commands are a little different than for Tcl/Tk):
- cd ~/python/Python-1.5.2/
- ./configure --with-thread
- make Python

Change to the Python Modules subdirectory and copy in a modified version of the Setup file:

cd Modules
cp ~/SE381ToolCD/LinuxSetup/Python/Setup .

Alternatively, you may edit the "tkinter" section of the Setup file, uncommenting lines to make it look like this:

# *** Always uncomment this (leave the leading underscore in!):
 _tkinter _tkinter.c tkappinit.c -DWITH_APPINIT \
# *** Uncomment and edit to reflect where your Tcl/Tk headers are:
	-I/usr/local/include \
# *** Uncomment and edit to reflect where your X11 header files are:
	-I/usr/X11R6/include \
# *** Or uncomment this for Solaris:
#	-I/usr/openwin/include \
# *** Uncomment and edit for Tix extension only:
#	-DWITH_TIX -ltix4.1.8.0 \
# *** Uncomment and edit for BLT extension only:
#	-DWITH_BLT -I/usr/local/blt/blt8.0-unoff/include -lBLT8.0 \
# *** Uncomment and edit for PIL (TkImaging) extension only:
#	-DWITH_PIL -I../Extensions/Imaging/libImaging  tkImaging.c \
# *** Uncomment and edit for TOGL extension only:
#	-DWITH_TOGL togl.c \
# *** Uncomment and edit to reflect where your Tcl/Tk libraries are:
	-L/usr/local/lib \
# *** Uncomment and edit to reflect your Tcl/Tk versions:
	-ltk8.0 -ltcl8.0 \
# *** Uncomment and edit to reflect where your X11 libraries are:
	-L/usr/X11R6/lib \
# *** Or uncomment this for Solaris:
#	-L/usr/openwin/lib \
# *** Uncomment these for TOGL extension only:
#	-lGL -lGLU -lXext -lXmu \
# *** Uncomment for AIX:
#	-lld \
# *** Always uncomment this; X11 libraries to link with:
	-lX11

Now, change back to the Python subdirectory, and build the files:
- cd ~/python/Python-1.5.2/
- make
Become root and install the Python files:
- su
- Password: . . .
- make install
This will install Python files in /usr/local/lib and /usr/local/bin. When complete, press Ctrl-D to switch out of root mode.

Z/EVES

It may be helpful to refer to the ZEvesUnix.pdf document (you copied from the tools CD.
Become root, create the Z/Eves directory, and change to that directory:
- su
  . . .
- cd /usr/local
- mkdir Z-Eves
- cd Z-Eves
Unpack the Z/Eves compressed tar file:

tar xvfz ~/SE381ToolCD/Z-Eves/LinuxSetup/z-eves-pc-linux-gcl-2.1.tgz

Copy the files z-eves and z-eves-gui from the tools CD image to /usr/local/bin:
- cp ~/SE381ToolCD/Z-Eves/LinuxSetup/z-eves /usr/local/bin
- cp ~/SE381ToolCD/Z-Eves/LinuxSetup/z-eves-gui /usr/local/bin
These files are edited versions of z-eves.sh and z-eves-gui.sh from the Z/Eves distribution.
There can be problems installing the Z fonts under Linux/XFree86, especially if you copy the TrueType version of the fonts as well as the Type 1 fonts we want to use. (If this sounds like the voice of experience, it is!) The following process is recommended.

As root, copy the Z font files to the system font directory tree, add the new font directory to the X font server path, and reload the font server database:
- su
  Password: . . .
- cp -r ~/SE381ToolCD/Z-Eves/LinuxSetup/zedfont-linux /usr/share/fonts
- /usr/sbin/chkfontpath --add /usr/share/fonts/zedfont-linux
- /usr/sbin/service xfs reload
The copy command above is equivalent to creating the /user/share/fonts/zedfont-linux directory, and then copying ONLY the following files from the /usr/local/Z-Eves/zedfont directory:
- fonts.dir
- fonts.scale
- README.TXT
- zed_____.afm
- zed_____.inf
- zed_____.pfb
- zed_____.pfm

LaTeX

The tetex TeX/LaTeX software is usually part of Linux distributions, but you may have to install it.

You can do the installation by selecting "Authoring and Publishing" in the Red Hat "Add/Remove Applications" utility, or by installing the appropriate "tetex" packages.

Kile

Optionally, install the Kile development environment RPM in the LinuxSetup/Kile directory in the installation tree.

This page was last updated on Wednesday, 10-Sep-2003 13:27:52 CDT.