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Zim - A Desktop Wiki

Installing Zim on Linux or Unix

This page describes how to install Zim manually on a Linux or Unix system. A number of Linux distributions have standard packages for Zim now, using these is usually the easiest.

Dependencies

Perl

You need to have perl 5.8.0 or newer installed. This is a standard package in almost any distribution.

Gtk+

This program uses the gtk+ toolkit version 2.4 or newer. It is NOT backward compatible with gtk+ 2.0 and 2.2.

Gtk-Perl

You can install the Glib and Gtk2 perl modules from CPAN, however check if your distribution has standard packages for this first, this will usually be much easier.

CPAN modules

You will need the perl modules listed below, all of these are available from CPAN. Some may already be installed on your system. When you run "perl Build.pl" (see below) the build script will tell you what you are missing.

Module::Build
Test::More

POSIX
Encode
IO::File
File::Spec
File::Copy

File::BaseDir
File::MimeInfo
File::DesktopEntry

Optional modules used by plugins:

Gtk2::TrayIcon
Gtk2::Spell    (requires gtkspell)

To install a module from CPAN you can run the following command:

perl -MCPAN -e "install foo::bar"

Installing Zim

To install using only perl:

$ perl Build.PL
$ ./Build
$ ./Build test
$ ./Build install

or if you have GNU Make available, you can try:

$ ./configure
$ make
$ make test
$ make install

For more information about install targets etc. see the documentation for the Module::Build perl module.