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.