INSTALLING and RUNNING the BINARY PACKAGE OF TreeMaker 5.0 for Linux 
  by Carlos A. Furuti

1. INTRODUCTION

This file briefly mentions requirements and usage of the binary
installation package provided for TreeMaker 5.0 for Linux (TM5L for
short). If, for reasons explained below, you need to compile TM5L from
source code instead, download the latter and read the included
linux/README_linux.txt.

2. TESTED PLATFORMS

Linux's runtime environment is constantly evolving. Unfortunately,
we have neither time nor resources to provide and test binary packages
for every Linux platform. TM5L's official binary installer was tested
on Fedora Core 4 and Ubuntu 5.10, running on i386 (AMD and Intel).

This package relies on the following shared libraries (most notably
GTK+ 2.0 and glibc2):

	/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x00af2000)
	libatk-1.0.so.0 
	libc.so.6 
	libdl.so.2 
	libexpat.so.0 
	libfontconfig.so.1 
	libfreetype.so.6 
	libgcc_s.so.1 
	libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 
	libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 
	libglib-2.0.so.0 
	libgmodule-2.0.so.0 
	libgobject-2.0.so.0 
	libgthread-2.0.so.0 
	libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 
	libjpeg.so.62 
	libm.so.6 
	libpango-1.0.so.0 
	libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 
	libpangox-1.0.so.0 
	libpangoxft-1.0.so.0 
	libpng12.so.0 
	libpthread.so.0 
	libstdc++.so.6 
	libX11.so.6 
	libXcursor.so.1 
	libXext.so.6 
	libXfixes.so.3 
	libXft.so.2 
	libXi.so.6 
	libXinerama.so.1 
	libXrandr.so.2 
	libXrender.so.1 
	libXxf86vm.so.1 
	libz.so.1 
	linux-gate.so.1 

If your installed libraries aren't compatible, the binary package
won't run. Either upgrade your libraries or compile TM5L from source.

3. INSTALLING

TM5L's installer is a shell script. After dowloading your copy, it may
be run as in "sh TreeMaker5Linux.sh" (the script's exact name may
change depending on its version). Depending on your preferred
installation directory (read below), you should first become the
superuser, via "su" or "sudo".

If your graphic desktop is active and you have Tcl/Tk, a graphic
installer will start. Otherwise, a text-based installer will
automatically be chosen. You may force the text version with the
"--nox" option.

During installation, you'll choose directories for which you'll
need write permission:

- a temporary directory for holding the extracted files. This will
require about 6MB of free disk space. The default "/tmp" is usually
appropriate.

- the actual directory prefix, with similar free space. The default
"/usr/local" is recommended.  You may choose otherwise, like "/usr"
and "/opt", but in this case you'll run TM5L via a (provided) wrapper
script

4. RUNNING

The installer will tell you how you can run TM5L. If the name is not in
your PATH environment variable, you might add it, or create a symbolic
link or alias.

Use the "-h" command-line option to check available options.

5. UNINSTALLING

The installer will create a simple uninstaller script. Just run it to
remove TM5L.