SGI Freeware, Part 2 of 2 May 2001 Release Compiled by Ian Mapleson (mapesdhs@yahoo.com) Last Change: 11/July/2001 Key: In this document, the expression '' (an abbreviation for 'directory path') refers to your CDROM mount point. Usually, will simply be 'CDROM', ie. '//dist' would mean '/CDROM/dist', but sometimes one might have more than one CDROM present (/CDROM2, /CDROM3, etc.) or one may have copied the CD data to disk (eg. /var/tmp/cdromstuff/dist). Summary Contents of this CD: Item Description ^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^ README This file you're reading now. dist/ Installable products which constitute Part 2 of the May 2001 SGI Freeware release. html/ HTML pages describing all freeware items. productindex.txt Summary of freeware items included with Part 2 of the May 2001 SGI Freeware release. This is Part 2 of the May 2001 freeware software distribution for SGI systems (IRIX 6.2 or later). To install any of the freeware products, use a source directory of: //dist or you can specify one particular product, eg. the Apache web server: //dist/fw_apache IRIX 6.5 allows one to specify multiple specific products, eg. Apache and Seti@Home: //dist/fw_nedit //dist/setiathome The May 2001 release of freeware totals approximately 1.3GB of data, ie. far too much to fit on a single CD. Thus, I've split the freeware into two parts. Part 1 includes all those items which the vast majority of users will be interested in, eg. GIMP, GNU, PovRay, cdrecord, xanim, ImageMagick, xmorph, Xfig, a2ps, etc. Part 2 includes those items which will likely be of less interest, eg. YACC, GNOME, Apache, xemacs, Pine, etc. Apache is not included in Part 1 since most users are unlikely to want to setup their own web server (besides, SGIs include servers such as FastTrack and outbox anyway). The items chosen to be included in Part 1 were selected to reflect the likely interests of home users, and/or those interested in audio/image/video/3D graphics, other media applications (rendering/animation) and application development in general (GNU), plus a degree of home management, (spread sheet, database, calender/reminder tool, Postcript tools, web tools, 2D data plotting tools, etc.) and research support (geometry visualisation tools, statistical computation/analysis, arbitrary precision calculations, GNU Scientific Library, etc.) Note: if you have not installed any products from Part 1, then it is highly likely that trying to install items from Part 2 will report dependency-related installation conflicts, ie. many Part 2 items cannot be installed until some of the items from Part 1 have been installed first (or open both distributions to resolve conflicts, though IRIX 6.2 doesn't support this in swmgr). An easy way to resolve all conflicts is to copy the contents of the 'dist' distribution directories from the two CDs into a single directory on your hard disk (eg. /var/tmp/dist), and then use the hard disk's directory as a source for swmgr (Software Manager), eg.: swmgr -f /var/tmp/dist Part 1 includes a product selections file to ease installation. However, Part 2 CD does not include a selections file since most users will likely just want to install a handful of items from Part 2 (eg. the Apache web server, or the SETI@HOME software), compared to installing just about everything from Part 1. See the file //productindex.txt for a complete list of all software subsystems included with Part 2. An HTML index to _all_ of the freeware products that constitute the May 2001 release can be found in the subdirectory named 'html'. This index is included on both Freeware CDs so that one can see, after examining productindex.txt, which items are on the other CD without having to switch CDs. To access the html pages, enter this command: netscape file://html/ and then just click on the desired item given in the directory listing. If you select all products for installation, be prepared to wait a very long time if using something like an R4600PC/133 Indy since there are dozens of separate software products to install. Switch to a better CPU and faster CDROM (or other source such as data via 100Mbit network server) if possible. NOTES: - Before installing any freeware items, always install the following CDs first: - IRIX Development Libraries - IRIX Development Foundation - MIPS Pro All-Compiler CD (May 1999) This ensures that any prerequisite subsystems have already been installed. - Make sure all N32 libraries are installed, especially the IRIX Base Execution Libraries N32. Many products depend on them. - If you're not sure whether you really should install a particular product you're interested in, perhaps because of security reasons, then a safer method is to only install the release notes and documentation for a product. Then you can read the documentation and decide what to do next. If you have any questions about this freeware CD I have constructed, feel free to email me. However, if you have questions about specific freeware products and their use, please email the authors concerned, not me. Cheers! :) Ian. SGI/NT System Administrator, Centre for Virtual Environments, University of Salford, Salford, M5 4WT, England, UK. mapesdhs@yahoo.com Tel: +44 (0)161 295 2926 Fax: +44 (0)161 295 2925 Any comments, views or opinions expressed here do not necessarily reflect those of the Centre for Virtual Environments (CVE), or Salford University My sites, their contents and my comments are the result of my own projects and not official sites from SGI, CVE or Salford University. Doom Help Service (DHS): http://gamers.org/dhs/ SGI/Future Technology/N64: http://www.futuretech.vuurwerk.nl/ BSc Dissertation (Doom): http://gamers.org/dhs/diss/