KaTeker Installation

Topics

Installation

Root access to X-server

Other software required

Installation

If you apply or install the software you accept the disclaimer.

Before you install KaTeker you should read the requirements on your system.

There are two parts of KaTeker:

The binary package of KaTeker
The source package of KaTeker

All packages of KaTeker come as a tarball.

The Software is installed into the directories /usr/local/KaTeker and /usr/local/bin.
The documentation is installed at /usr/local/KaTeker/Doc.

Install Software required by KaTeker

KaTeker requires Perl 5.6 and other programs required.

KaTeker uses cdlabelgen.
Copyright (C) 1998, 1999 B. W. Fitzpatrick
Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Avinash Chopde www.aczone.com

Unpack KaTeker

To install do ( any_directory can be ~/tmp )

   cd any_directory
   tar xzf your_path_to/KaTeker_RELEASE_xxx.tgz

This will create the directory KaTeker_RELEASE_xxx in any_directory . Read README and index.html.

Quick Installation

If you are using a file manger like KDE Konqueror open then folder (directory) KaTeker_RELEASE_jjjj_mm_dd .
Start KaTeker simply clicking click_install_KaTeker.

Install KaTeker

   cd KaTeker_RELEASE_xxx
   su -c ./install_kateker

This checks your system and installs the KaTeker software or throws an error message.

It is necessary that the user running KaTeker have write access to the directory /var/lock/ . It can be necessary to put the user into a group that has sufficient rights.

Before recording CDR(W): Could you create CDR(W) on your system? If not, read Recording CDR(W).

If you do not need the integrated help run

   su -c ./install_kateker -help

This saves about 12 Mbyte.

Some Tests

  /usr/local/bin/backup_system -h
  /usr/local/bin/tkateker

backup_system or backup_system.pl is the command line interface, tkateker or tkateker.pl the graphical interface.

Root access to X-server

There can be problems to access the X-server when running root. In most cases a terminal started by an user and changing to root by su will not work because of access to the X-server. If can start any X-program ( xterm ) there will be no problem.

There are tree solutions:

on KDE use:
kdesu xterm
use ssh:
ssh -X -l root localhost xterm
use xhost: run as normal user ( not root )
xhost +localhost
su
xterm -display localhost:0.0

HTML documentation of KaTeker

The documentation of KaTeker can be viewed by a browser at file:///usr/local/KaTeker/Doc/index.html.

Integrating KaTeker into the system

You should include /usr/local/bin into your path. Then you can start tkateker and backup_system without the path.

Finally you should create an entry for tkateker in the start menu of your window manager. There are some icons included:

KaTeker/Doc/kateker_32.gif KaTeker/Doc/kateker_64.gif

KaTeker/Doc/kateker_32.png KaTeker/Doc/kateker_64.png