How to install Unix Amaya Binary Release

Choose the version you need

There are two binary distributions

.rpm distribution for Fedora, Mandrake and Suse
.deb distribution for Debian Sarge (testing) platforms

Install the rmp distribution

Supposing you downloaded the distribution file in your /tmp directory, we suggest:

Remove the old installed version
```
rpm -e amaya_wx
rpm -e amaya_gtk
```

Install one of the new versions

rpm -i /tmp/amaya_wx-R.V-1.i386.rpm
rpm -i /tmp/amaya_gtk-R.V-1.i386.rpm

Install the deb distribution

Supposing you downloaded the distribution file in your /tmp directory, we suggest:

Remove the old installed version
```
dpkg -r amaya_wx
dpkg -r amaya_gtk
```

Install one of the new versions

dpkg -i /tmp/amaya_wx-R.V-1_i386.deb
dpkg -i /tmp/amaya_gtk-R.V-1_i386.deb

How to change the dialogue language

New By default Amaya works with an English dialogue and comes with an English in-line documentation. Other dialogues (French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and Finnish) and other version of the in-line documentation (French, German, Spanish) are also available provided the user downloads the extra amayadoc file as explained in http://www.w3.org/Amaya/User/BinDist.html

When other dialogues are installed, the user can change the dialogue language through the configuration menu Edit > Preferences > General (fr for French, de for German, es for Spanish, pt for Portuguese, it for Italian, and fi for Finnish).

If something goes wrong

If Amaya doesn't seems to work, check the following points:
1. the DISPLAY variable is correctly set.
2. The binary just installed is the correct one, i.e. it is the correct binary for the current machine.
3. If the binary version is ok, check the availability of the dynamic libraries needed by the executable file amaya.
  For example for the WX version:
  
  ldd /usr/share/Amaya-R.V/wx/bin/amaya
  
  and check that there is no missing libraries.
4. If a GDK crash occurs, you can try to execute the command "xset fp" then retry to launch amaya.
5. If all dynamic libraries needed by the executable file amaya are there, you can launch amaya with strace to see what is wrong
```
strace /usr/share/Amaya-R.V/wx/bin/amaya
```
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Irène Vatton
Date: 2006-01-13

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