SGI Freeware August 2003, Part 2 of 4 Freeware CD Split V1.0 by Ian Mapleson Last change: 12/May/2003 Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Installation 3. Prerequisites 1. Introduction This CD is part 2 of a carefully constructed split of the SGI Freeware August 2003 onto four CDs. Please see the README on CD 1 for a full introduction and background on this freeware split. My methodology is to put the most interesting and useful items that would be wanted by the majority of home/hobbyist users onto CD 1, with less interesting/useful items arbitrarily stored on CDs 2, 3 and 4. However, some people will have a different focus for using the freeware, eg. experimenting with window managers, in which case my split of the freeware may not be relevant. Such users will find items like GNOME, Enlightenment and WindowMaker on CDs 2, 3 and 4, along with the more obscure GNU products, etc. For those who wish to install ImageMagick, install CD 1 first and then use the product selections file called imgmagick.txt. Run swmgr, read in this CD (the source would normally be /CDROM/dist), unselect everything, load the selections file imgmagick.txt and click Start. If installed, the ImageMagick products on this CD will use up 198MB of space. If you want the 64bit libs from these products to be installed too, then use the selections file called imgmagick64.txt. For convenience, I have included two other selections files to help make it easier to install certain types of freeware items: networktools.txt - a selections file for security, network and communications tools. Space used: 26.3MB. audimgtools.txt - a selections file for 2D imaging, image processing and audio tools. Space used: 57.3MB. A 64bit version of this file is included, called audimgtools64.txt (space used: 61MB). Both files should be very useful if you want extra relevant tools in addition to those installed from CD 1. Note that not all relevant items by each file since a few items depend on products from CDs 2, 3 and 4, though you could always read in the other CDs before using the selections files. NOTE: product selections files are additive!! This means you can load one selections file after another and the results will be added together. Thus, assuming CD 1 has already been installed, you could read in all three of the main selections files from this CD one after another (imgmagick.txt, networktools.txt and audimgtools.txt) which would select all the relevant items for installation without any conflicts - the space used if this is done would be 278MB. A list of the freeware products on this CD is contained in the file cd2prods.txt. Also, web page release notes for all the freeware products (from all four CDs) are contained in the html subdirectory on each CD, while on this CD a summary list of product titles for the items on CDs 1, 3 and 4 are in the files cd1prods.txt, cd3prods.txt and cd4prods.txt. Equivalent files are on the other three CDs. These documents should aid the location of items without the need for swapping CDs; remember one can use grep to search the contents of a file. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Installation It is highly likely that items from this CD and CDs 3 and 4 will depend on items from CD 1. Thus, it is best to install CD 1 first before installing items from the other CDs. Plus, I have not attempted to resolve any dependencies between the items on CDs 2, 3 and 4. Thus, you may need to read in CDs 3 and 4 aswell in order to resolve any installation conflicts. The following assumes that this CD is mounted on /CDROM. As root, run up Software Manager (use the Toolchest or enter swmgr in a shell). Type /CDROM/dist as a source location and then click on Customize Installation (or just double-click on the CDROM icon instead). When the distribution has been read, eject CD 2, insert CD 3, choose Open Additional Distribution from the File menu and read in the contents of CD 3. Repeat for CD 4. Once read, swmgr will show all the items ticked for installation. Unselect all items by choosing Unmark All from the Selected menu. Now either manually select the items you want to install, resolve any conflicts and click on Start, or use the supplied selections files if they are of any relevance (see introduction above for details of the selections files). You may wish to manually examine the contents of products you want to install before starting the installation to ensure that any useful extras such as demo programs and documentation are also installed; note that the selections files have already been designed to select all such useful extras. NOTE: the items which could not be fitted onto CDs 1, 2 and 3 are, as mentioned earlier, on CD 4. However, there was still a great deal of unused space left over on CD 4, so I have included various other shareware/freeware items on CD 4 as a useful extra resource. These include: Certain Impact Version 1.0 Impact Demos CD Version 1.0 Form & Vision Eclipse 3.1.3 MPlayer 1.0pre3 (timo) Macromedia's Flash5 plugin - 5.0.89 Mekton Game Mozilla for IRIX 1.4 OpenOffice: Office Suite, v1.0.3.1 XV 3.10a See the README file on CD 4 for full details. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Prerequisites Many items on CDs 2, 3 and 4 depend on items from CD 1. Thus, I recommend installing all of CD 1 before installing anything from this CD. See the README file on CD 1 for full details. Feedback on this freeware split is most welcome. Cheers! :) Ian. SGI Depot: http://www.futuretech.blinkenlights.nl/sgidepot/ Email: mapesdhs@yahoo.com Backup email (send copy to this too): im011f3554@blueyonder.co.uk Home: +44 (0)131 477 1142 (best to call this number first) Mobile: 07743 495403 (usually off; leave a message and I'll call back) SGI/Future Technology/N64: http://www.futuretech.blinkenlights.nl/ Mirror site: http://futuretech.mirror.vuurwerk.net/ Doom Help Service (DHS): http://www.gamers.org/dhs/