Cronos II Is built using the GNU Autoconf and Automake Tools and friends. Integration with Gnome is comprehensive.
You may also run this application under a "pure" GTK environment without Gnome. (Though you will need gnome libraries and gnome print for some features.)
In short Cronos II should be able to be installed anywhere the GIMP Tool Kit is available including ports of GTK to the Windows ™ Operating System.
To build and run Cronos II-0.2.2-22 you need to have the following libraries installed: If you are using a binary package e.g.. RPM or DEB please ignore this list. It should have been taken care of for you.
(my apologies to Windows™ Users I'm not sure what they need beyond GTK)
Please let me know so that I can update this manual. <petergozz@users.sourceforge.net> or see Section 4.5
glib-config --versionglib-1.2.8 or later
gtk-config --versiongtk-1.2.8 or later
gnome-config --versionTo use with GNOME your working gnome libs will need to be fairly recent gnome-libs 1.2.5 are on this system (and all is well), earlier versions may well work.(1.2.4 is OK)
To use the Gnome Print Utility you will need libgnomeprint.so.11.2.4 or later wherever you have your Gnome libraries installed. For Example:
ls /usr/lib/libgnomeprint.*or
ls /usr/local/lib/libgnomeprint.*
libgnomeprint has been upgraded several times since this was originally written. I have found that as long as your gnome development libraries are as new as libgnome print - all is well.
You will of course have to have the usual GNU tools on hand as well.
Though if you have a working GNU / LINUX (or BSD?) system (with GTK on-board) all these should be more than just fine.
Cronos II may arrived packaged in a number of formats.
The most likely are shown here:
Gzipped Source Tar-balls
These look like this
Cronos II.-0.2.2-22.tar.gz
See Section 1.1.2 for install instructions.
Bzip2 Tar-balls
This format is becoming more widely used, these will usually look like this:
Cronos II-0.2.2-22.tar.bz2
See Bzipped for install instructions.
Cronos II is also available as a Debian binary package ( Since most of the development team use Debian GNU/Linux )
Cronos II-0.2.2-22_i386.deb
There are official and unofficial (wild) packages. Instructions for these are at Debian Packages
Finally Cronos II may be available as a Redhat Package Manager - Package.
These RPM's should look like this:
Cronos II.-0.2.2-22.ixxx.rpm
Instructions for these are at Red Hat Packages
![]() | If you are installing from tar balls please read the README and INSTALL files (at least) in the source. These are likely to be more up to date than this manual. Other formats are possible not least of which are zip and debs. Support for these or other formats may be added should the demand for them warrant it. |
These are the most common method of distributing application packages (and other stuff ) in the UNIX / LINUX world.
To install Cronos II from the same directory as the package :
[user@ X]#
tar zxvf Cronos II-0.2.2-22.tar.gz
[user@ X]#
cd Cronos II-0.2.2-22
[user @ Cronos II-0.2.2-22] #
./configure
[user @Cronos II-0.2.2-22] #
./make
[user @Cronos II-0.2.2-22] #
su
[user @Cronos II-0.2.2-22] #
password: your-root-password
[root @Cronos II-0.2.2-22] #
./make install
[root @Cronos II-0.2.2-22] #
exit
[user @Cronos II-0.2.2-22] #
cronos
![]() | The text between" [ and ] "is a representation of your terminal prompt. Yours will be different to that shown and may change markedly when you "su" to root. |
For further instruction and options for using configure and make commands please see the documentation in the tar ball.
![]() | #configure --help # man make |
This mode of distribution uses a powerful compression method ( # man bzip2 ) that is deliberately very similar to gzip at the command line. It is impressive how much size and download time can be saved using this compression method.
Installation with bzip2 is nearly identical to gnu-zip.
To install Cronos II from the same directory as the package :
[user@ X]#
tar Ixvf Cronos II-0.2.2-22.tar.bz2
[user@ X]#
cd Cronos II-0.2.2-22
[user @ Cronos II-0.2.2-22]#
./configure
[user @Cronos II-0.2.2-22]#
./make
[user @Cronos II-0.2.2-22]#
su
[user @Cronos II-0.2.2-22]#
password: your-root-password
[root @Cronos II-0.2.2-22]#
./make install
[root @Cronos II-0.2.2-22]#
exit
[user @Cronos II-0.2.2-22]#
cronos
These packages are used by many LINUX distributions as a simple and effective way of installing software and keeping issues like dependencies in order. Other distributions have their own equally useful approaches that achieve similar ends.
Installation may be undertaken from the command line,or a GUI front end to RPM like GNORPM . In all cases root level permissions are required to install system wide.
At the command line do the following as ROOT from the same directory as you have the package. :
[root@x]#
rpm -Uvh Cronos II-0.2.2-22
[root@x]#
exit
or
login
to your normal account
[user@x]#
cronos
![]() | As Cronos II tarballs include a spec file you may build your own RPM by typing the following from the command line: (as root) [root@x]# rpm -ta Cronos II-0.2.2-22.tar.gz This should (all going well) build a package ready for you to install as a standard RPM as shown above. |
Cronos II version 0.2.2 and hopefully later versions are now available from the unstable branch at your local ftp mirror.
apt-get install cronosIIshould find you the latest Debian build.
There may also be unofficial (wild) debs available from the Cronos II download site.
To install Official Debian packages use
apt-get install cronosiiTo install a downloaded Unofficial deb use:
dpkg -i Cronos II-0.2.2-22_i386.debor similar.
Please note that the unofficial and official packages may use slightly different package names. You may need to do an uninstall before moving to the other version.