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Fontlinge
Whatis?
Download
Requirements
Install
HowTo...
Step 1 - Collect fonts
Step 2 - Check
Step 3 - Make DB
Step 4 - Reunite
Step 5 - Dupekill prep
Step 6 - Dupekill
Step 7 - Make DB 2
Step 8 - Previews
WebGUI
Font poster
Database management
Links+Thankyou
Contact
 
 
Install

You have installed everything listed one page ago? Then installation is very easy. Just read the file

INSTALL

and you will be guided through installation.


User installation

Fontlinge have a two-step installation, like i. e. OpenOffice.
After the system installation, every user that wants to use Fontlinge has to call fontlinge_userinstall and fontlinge_config to install the WebGUI files to your ~/public_html/fontlinge directory and to create the ~/.fontlinge.

If you don't like to type the --long-options, let fontlinge_config include fontlinge_complete in your ~/.bashrc (it will add a line source /path/to/fontlinge_complete) and re-login. This allows autocompletion of the --long-options for fontlinge scripts with tab key as known from filenames.

Then setup the database with
fontlinge_database_assistant --phoenix


If something doesn't work feel free to contact
fontlinge AT gesindel DOT de


  For SUSE users:

Download and install the RPM file instead of the tar.gz or tar.bz2 file. Then continue with the "User installation" section.


For Debian users:

At least on my sid system ~/.bash_profile has commented out usage of ~/.bashrc, so you lose lot's of features - like fontlinge autocompletion. If you want to activate those features, look for:
#if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
#    . ~/.bashrc
#fi
and remove the #'s.
The new features become active at the next login.




Quicktip:

Read the file INSTALL