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This is a major patch by Michael Nauta. It means all writes happen immediately to bsddb, and the bsddb rollback is used on a crash. Transaction is no longer used to store changes and do them on commit. Undo database is set on end. At the same time with statement is used throughout for transactions At the same time, the original bug in merge code should be fixed Still some issues, that will be ironed out svn: r16523
Please read the COPYING file first.
If building from source, also read the INSTALL file (at least through the
"SUPER-SHORT VERSION") before going further.
Requirements
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The following packages *MUST* be installed in order for Gramps to work:
Python 2.5 or greater
PyGTK2 2.12 or greater
librsvg2 (svg icon view)
xdg-utils
The following package is needed for full translation of the interface
to your language:
language-pack-gnome-xx
Translation of GTK elements to your language, with
with xx your language code eg for Dutch you need
language-pack-gnome-nl. The translation of the
Gramps strings is included with the source code.
The following packages are *STRONGLY RECOMMENDED* to be installed:
GraphViz Enable creation of graphs using GraphViz engine
http://www.graphviz.org
The following packages are *STRONGLY RECOMMENDED* to be installed:
PyWebKitGtk or python-gtkmozembed: PACKAGERS, Test if on your distribution
webkit and Gramps is stable. If you get crashes, patch
src/plugins/view/htmlrenderer.py and
src/plugins/view/geoview.gpr.py, so as to remove:
import webkit
Then use the gecko package (python-gtkmozembed) instead.
If WEBKIT ang GECKO are installed, webkit will be used as
the javascript engine is faster (google maps).
* PyWebKitGtk
Enable html rendering for Geographic view and Web view
Often called python-webkit package.
Be careful, webkit is always in a development phase.
* python-gtkmozembed
Enable html rendering for Geographic view and Web view
The gecko (firefox) equivalent to webkit, at the moment
of writing, more stable than webkit.
It can be in python-gnome2-extras or python-gtkhtml2
depending on distributions.
The following packages are optional
python gtkspell & python enchant : Enable spell checking in the notes,
the first contains the libraries, the second is
needed to query the installed languages. Both must
be present for spell check to activate
ttf-freefont More font support in the reports
No longer needed in 3.1:
yelp Gnome help browser. At the moment no help is shipped
No longer needed in 3.2:
python glade bindings
Documentation
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The User Manual is now maintained on the gramps website,
http://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=User_manual
We might in the future distribute again a manual via gnome-doc-utils, this has not
been decided yet though.
Building on non-Linux systems: i18n support and GNU make
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If make fails, use gmake (the name FreeBSD gives to GNU make) instead.
You might need a patch also. FreeBSD has in ports a patch ( /usr/ports/science/gramps/files)
you need to apply to po/Makefile.in.in
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Donald Allingham
dallingham@users.sourceforge.net
benny.malengier@gramps-project.org