Installing xhelp v0.3 software


Introduction

The current release of xhelp has a somewhat automated instalation. It is required that certain software packages be installed before the software will work correctly. Links to these software packages are below and will be maintained.

Software Needed by xhelp.

  1. Download and install tcl/tk v8.0 or higher.
  2. Download and install tix
  3. Download and install Swish-Enhanced

Documentation needed by xhelp.

Documentation instalation of manual pages and howtos are discussed in separate documents. The xhelp program does not need any particular help files, so support for these is separate. Once SEUL has determined the document format(s) of choice, a documentation specific distribution for the help system will be provided.

xhelp instalation

  1. Retrieve xhelp sources from cvs.
  2. Move into the dev/help/xhelp directory
  3. ./doinstall
  4. Set the path and program values to those within your system. Be sure to check that they are all correct.
  5. Hit the install button. Once install is complete either:
    1. The program will exit successfully.
    2. A window will come up specifying install errors. There may be some errors that do not matter, so there probably won't be a problem.

Running xhelp

Type xhelp

To load a specific document type xhelp filename

Problems?

If there are any installation problems please contact Ken Duck at twoducks@globalserve.net.