Misc. Tools

Table of Contents

Minimal Japanese Environment

# rpm -Uvh less-378-11.1a.ppc.rpm

You may want to add

    export JLESSCHARSET=japanese-euc

to your ~/.bashrc to browse Japanese documents.
 

nkf

# rpm -Uvh nkf-2.03-1a.ppc.rpm
 

kterm

# rpm -Uvh kterm-6.2.0-37a.ppc.rpm
 

Notes:

Found that termcap entry for kterm is missing:

$ cp /usr/share/misc/termcap ~/.termcap
$ cat <kterm source dir>/termcap.kt >> ~/.termcap
 

For inputting Japanese characters, do

$ vi ~/.inputrc
set convert-meta off
set meta-flag on
set output-meta on
 

Canna

# rpm -Uvh Canna-3.6-24a.ppc.rpm
 

kinput2

# rpm -Uvh kinput2-v3.1-11a.ppc.rpm
 
 

Ghostscript and Ghostview

# rpm -Uvh libjpeg-6b-29a.ppc.rpm
# rpm -Uvh libjpeg-devel-6b-29a.ppc.rpm
# rpm -Uvh libpng-1.2.2-17a.ppc.rpm
# rpm -Uvh libpng-devel-1.2.2-17a.ppc.rpm
# rpm -Uvh libtiff-3.5.7-14a.ppc.rpm
# rpm -Uvh libtiff-devel-3.5.7-14a.ppc.rpm

FreeType

# rpm -Uvh freetype-1.3.1-3d.ppc.rpm
# rpm -Uvh freetype-devel-1.3.1-3d.ppc.rpm
# rpm -Uvh freetype-utils-1.3.1-3d.ppc.rpm

VFlib

# rpm -Uvh VFlib2-2.25.6-18a.ppc.rpm
# rpm -Uvh VFlib2-devel-2.25.6-18a.ppc.rpm
# rpm -Uvh chkfontpath-1.9.10-2a.ppc.rpm
# rpm -Uvh ttfonts-ja-1.2-16b.noarch.rpm

Ghostscript

# rpm -Uvh glib-1.2.10-8b.ppc.rpm
# rpm -Uvh gtk+-1.2.10-22b.ppc.rpm
# rpm -Uvh urw-fonts-2.1-5.1a.noarch.rpm
# rpm -Uvh ghostscript-fonts-5.50-8jc.noarch.rpm
# rpm -Uvh ghostscript-7.05.6-2a.ppc.rpm

Ghostview

# rpm -Uvh gv-3.5.8-23a.ppc.rpm
 

TeX Family

There are many TeX packages available on the net. For Japanese type setting, the following RPMs might be useful:

# rpm -Uvh tetex-macros-2.0-0vl1b.noarch.rpm
# rpm -Uvh tetex-2.0.2-0vl1b.ppc.rpm
# rpm -Uvh tetex-doc-2.0.2-0vl1b.ppc.rpm
# rpm -Uvh tetex-extra-2.0.2-0vl1b.ppc.rpm
# rpm -Uvh jvf-1.1a-0vl2c.noarch.rpm
# rpm -Uvh xdvik-22.40w_jp-0vl1b.ppc.rpm
# rpm -Uvh dvipdfmx-20031116-1a.ppc.rpm

You can also use these with TeXShop, following the instruction given in http://www.r.dendai.ac.jp/~kiriki/tex.

More Tools: ImageMagick, ncftp, tgif, ...

# rpm -Uvh ImageMagick-5.5.7-1b.ppc.rpm
# rpm -Uvh ImageMagick-c++-5.5.7-1b.ppc.rpm

Ncftp

# rpm -Uvh ncftp-3.1.6-2a.ppc.rpm

Note:
Found that termcap entry for kterm is missing:

$ cp /usr/share/misc/termcap ~/.termcap
$ cat <kterm source dir>/termcap.kt >> ~/.termcap

This must fix strange behavior of ncftp in hosts menu.
 

xtiff

# rpm -Uvh xtiff-1.0-2d.ppc.rpm
 

Tgif

# rpm -Uvh tgif-4.1.40-1d.ppc.rpm

To edit a postscript file with Tgif:

# rpm -Uvh pstoedit-3.33-1b.ppc.rpm

To enable LaTeX mode in Tgif:

# rpm -Uvh epstool-106-1d.ppc.rpm
 

and to manipulate resultant postscript outputs:

# rpm -Uvh psutils-1.17-20a.ppc.rpm