Installation and uninstallation

The latest version of the binaries and the source code can be obtained from the C-Munipack project home page: http://c-munipack.sourceforge.net/. Choose the binary or source package according to your platform and download it.

Using the installer on MS Windows

Note

Since C-Munipack version 2.1, MS Windows 2000 are no longer supported.

Download the installer (.exe file) from the project home page and execute it. Follow the instructions in the installation wizard. By default, the files are installed to the Program Files folder. The software itself doesn’t require the write access to the installation path and it doesn’t read or modify the windows registry. All configuration files and other temporary files are stored in user’s Application Data folder.

The installer package comprises of the both 32-bit and 64-bit executables. The installer automatically chooses the executables which are appropriate to the host platform.

Uninstallation

To uninstall the software open the Control Panel, then open the Add/Remove programs tool. Select the C-Munipack 2.1 item and click on the “Remove” button.

Building from the source code on POSIX-compliant systems

Download the source code archive to your computer and unpack it using the tar command. The software comes with the GNU automake configuration scripts.

Run the ‘configure’ script

First, run the configure script that is stored in the root directory. The script takes a while to finish. It automatically checks the dependencies and makes a set of Makefiles that in turn are called to build and install the binaries and the data files. Here is the list of the most frequently used command-line options that the configure script accepts.

--help

Print the complete set of command-line options.

--prefix=path

Install the software in subdirectories below prefix. The default value of prefix is /usr/local.

The following options extends the default configure’s set:

--disable-gui

Do not build the graphical user interface (Muniwin).

--disable-toolkit

Do not build the set of user commands (toolkit).

--disable-sound

Do not build the software with the support for sounds that are played when a process is finished. Use this option if you do not have the gstreamer library.

--disable-wcs

Do not build the software with the Woorld Coordinate System (WCS) support. Use this option if you do not have the wcslib library.

Build and install

Run ‘make’. Once you have successfully compiled the software, run ‘make install’.

Note

On some systems, it is necessary to run ‘ldconfig’ after ‘make install’.

Files and directories

The ‘make install’ command installs a the binaries, the data and the user manual to the destination directory, the files is installed into following directories. In the list below, the prefix stands for the installation path, the default prefix is /usr/local.

prefix/bin

The binaries

prefix/lib

The libraries that are used to build applications using the C-Munipack API

prefix/include

The header files that are used to compile applications using the C-Munipack API

prefix/man

The Unix-style man pages

prefix/share/c-munipack-2.0

The icons, sounds and documentation

The configuration files are stored per user within the directory that is reserved for the user-specific application configuration information. The path is determined using the mechanisms described in the XDG Base Directory Specification.

$HOME/.config/C-Munipack-2.0

The configuration files

$HOME/.local/share/C-Munipack-2.0

The default directory for catalog files, projects, etc.