Installation
Dependencies
Artha directly depends on the following libraries. Please note that you will need to have the development headers (.h and .a/.so) of these libraries along with the actual library files.
| Library | Min. Version | Common Package Name |
|---|---|---|
| wordnet | 3.0 | wordnet-dev |
| glib | 2.10 | libglib2.0-dev |
| gtk+ | 2.12 | libgtk2.0-dev |
You will need the following tools to build:
- GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)
- Autoconf (>= 2.50)
- Automake
- gtk-builder-convert (gets installed along with libgtk2.0-dev)
- pkg-config
If you have installed GTK+ and GLib properly, pkg-config should be able to give the cflags and libs of GTK+ and GLib on the following command.
pkg-config --cflags --libs libgtk+-2.0
Optional Libraries
For Notifications feature to be available, you need libnotify-dev (>= 0.4.1) and libdbus-glib-1-dev (>= 0.74). Also pkg-config should be able to give the cflags and libs of libnotify and libdbus-glib on the following command.
pkg-config --cflags --libs libnotify dbus-glib-1
It is to be noted that even though libnotify is enough (necessary condition) to build Artha with notifications feature, the sufficient condition to actually see the notifications appear on-screen is to have notification daemon installed. This is to be installed, which will actually put up the notifications on request by Artha.
Configuring and Building
Once you have the tar ball from Download. Extract it. This will create a directory artha-0.8.0.
tar xzvf artha-0.8.0.tar.gz cd artha-0.8.0
Now you can configure. Use the prefix parameter to install it in /usr and by default configure configures it to /usr/local, which is not the actual path for installations.
./configure --prefix=/usr
If you have all the aforementioned dependencies right, configure will end with no errors. Should it encounter errors, follow the on-screen instructions it says to fix them.
To build give
make
You need to install Artha to run it, building is not sufficient. To install artha you need root privileges.
make install (as root)
Once the installation is complete, you can run Artha
artha
Or give man for Artha's manual
man artha
A shortcut will also get created in the Applications main menu, under Accessories.
