DR. KUHLMANN Software

Installing Niki

Niki comes in a single executable file. Copy it into a directory in your path.

To copy Niki into /usr/bin do

   su
   cp Niki /usr/bin/Niki
   chmod 755 /usr/bin/Niki
   exit

Bind Niki to an icon on your desktop. Niki will create the icon file ~/Niki/Niki.png.

Configuration of Niki

In most cases nothing is to configure but there is NikiConfiguration.

Temporary files

The binary version of Niki creates about 8MB temporary data at /tmp/par-user/.

Configuration and state files

The NikiConfiguration is ~/.niki.conf. The current state is in ~/.nikistate .

Spell checker

The NikiEditor supports SpellChecking. It needs the GNU aspell dictionaries. Please install the aspell dictionaries for English and your languages. On SuSE install the aspell-xxx packages. You get aspell at http://aspell.sourceforge.net .

Export and print function

The NikiPrintExport function uses the programs html2ps ps2pdf. On a SuSE system install the packages ghostscript-library and html2ps .

ghostscript should be installed on many Linux systems.

html2ps is at http://user.it.uu.se/~jan/html2ps.html .

Nikis Release

NikiVersion describes the current release.

Installing Niki source version

Follow NikiSource.



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