Installation - Linux

The Linux version is not quite as polished as the Windows version, but should be perfectly usable. Any problems are likely to be user interface glitches only, rather than the calculations. (A comprehensive test suite for the calculations passes on all systems.) PGOPHER should run on most recent Linux distributions as is provided the correct libraries are installed, mainly gnome support libraries.

The website has two tar files:

• pgopher-i386-linux.tgz for 32 bit x86 machines
• pgopher-x86_64-linux.tgz for 64 bit x86 machines. This can handle larger problems than the 32 bit version, but for most use cases does not provide any significant advantage. It will not run on 32 bit operating systems.
  

If running a 64 bit operating system the 64 bit version is probably the version to go for, though the 32 bit version will run on 64 bit systems, provided the appropriate 32 bit libraries are installed. (This is ia32-libs on Debian and derivatives.)

For either file, simply download and unpack using the command line (tar xvf <filename>) and run the PGOPHER executable (./pgopher). Executables (slave and tabslave) are also provided for the Slave Editor in the tar file, and this should be kept in the same directory as the PGOPHER executable.

If the binary does not run on your system you may need to compile from source, or email help-pgopher@bristol.ac.uk.

The Help menu entries do not do anything at the moment, but the help files are available at http://pgopher.chm.bris.ac.uk/Help/ and a tarball of the current help files can be downloaded from the website.