Misc. Tools

Table of Contents

Minimal Japanese Environment
Ghostscript and Ghostview
TeX Family
More Tools: Xv, ncftp, tgif, ...

Minimal Japanese Environment

less

# rpm -ivh less-358-16c.ppc.rpm

You may want to add

    export JLESSCHARSET=japanese-iso7

to your ~/.bashrc to browse Japanese documents.
 

nkf

# rpm -ivh nkf-1.92-11a.ppc.rpm
 

kterm

# rpm -ivh kterm-6.2.0-20d.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 -ivh Canna-3.5b2-5c.ppc.rpm
 

kinput2

# rpm -ivh kinput2-v3-3b.ppc.rpm
 

FVWM2

# rpm -ivh fvwm2-2.2.4-9d.ppc.rpm    fvwm2-icons-2.2.4-9d.ppc.rpm
 
 
 

Ghostscript and Ghostview

Libraries needed to build Ghostscript, GV, etc.

# rpm -ivh libjpeg-6b-15d.ppc.rpm
# rpm -ivh libjpeg-devel-6b-15d.ppc.rpm
# rpm -ivh libpng-1.0.13-5b.ppc.rpm
# rpm -ivh libpng-devel-1.0.13-5b.ppc.rpm
# rpm -ivh libtiff-3.5.7-7b.ppc.rpm
# rpm -ivh libtiff-devel-3.5.7-7b.ppc.rpm

FreeType

# rpm -ivh freetype-1.3.1-3c.ppc.rpm
# rpm -ivh freetype-devel-1.3.1-3c.ppc.rpm
# rpm -ivh freetype-utils-1.3.1-3c.ppc.rpm

VFlib

# rpm -ivh VFlib2-2.25.6-8c.ppc.rpm
# rpm -ivh VFlib2-devel-2.25.6-8c.ppc.rpm
# rpm -ivh chkfontpath-1.9.5-1c.ppc.rpm

# rpm -ivh ttfonts-ja-1.2-16a.noarch.rpm

Ghostscript

# rpm -ivh glib-1.2.10-8a.ppc.rpm
# rpm -ivh gtk+-1.2.10-22a.ppc.rpm
# rpm -ivh urw-fonts-2.0-12c.noarch.rpm
# rpm -ivh ghostscript-fonts-5.50-8jb.noarch.rpm
# rpm -ivh gimp-print-4.2.5-0vl4a.ppc.rpm
# rpm -ivh gimp-print-cups-4.2.5-0vl4a.ppc.rpm
# rpm -ivh ghostscript-7.05.6-1a.ppc.rpm
# rpm -ivh ghostscript-cups-7.05.6-1a.ppc.rpm

Ghostview

# rpm -ivh gv-3.5.8-10c.ppc.rpm
 

TeX Family

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

# rpm -ivh tetex-macros-2.0-0vl1a.noarch.rpm
# rpm -ivh tetex-2.0.2-0vl1a.ppc.rpm
# rpm -ivh tetex-doc-2.0.2-0vl1a.ppc.rpm
# rpm -ivh tetex-extra-2.0.2-0vl1a.ppc.rpm
# rpm -ivh jvf-1.1a-0vl2b.noarch.rpm
# rpm -ivh xdvik-22.40w_jp-0vl1a.ppc.rpm
# rpm -ivh dvipdfmx-20030313-0vl2a.ppc.rpm

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

 

More Tools: Xv, ncftp, tgif, ...

Xv

# rpm -ivh xv-3.10a-1c.ppc.rpm

Ncftp

# rpm -ivh ncftp-3.0.2-2b.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 -ivh xtiff-1.0-2c.ppc.rpm
 

Tgif

# rpm -ivh tgif-4.1.40-1c.ppc.rpm

To edit a postscript file with Tgif:

# rpm -ivh pstoedit-3.33-1a.ppc.rpm

To enable LaTeX mode in Tgif:

# rpm -ivh epstool-106-1c.ppc.rpm
 

and to manipulate resultant postscript outputs:

# rpm -ivh psutils-1.17-10c.ppc.rpm
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


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