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OpenAlchemy
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Alchemy is the much acclaimed user interface used by the Amida Simputer, 
optimised for mobile computing devices. 

LICENSE
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OpenAlchemy is published under the terms of the GNU General Public 
License, Version 2 or later.
Commercial, non-GPL licensing is also available. Please contact PicoPeta 
(http://picopeta.com) to discuss commercial license terms. 

GRAPHICS-LICENSE
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Graphics work is licensed under the Creative Commons 
Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License.
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You are free:
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* to Remix -- to make derivative works

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  terms of this work.
* Any of these conditions can be waived if you get permission from the
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Operating Environment
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* Linux Kernel 2.4 (i386) or above
* GNU C Library version 2.3 or above
* X Windows 4.x
* Dependencies for building OpenAlchemy - 
  Debian - Etch dependencies : automake1.9 libtool make libjpeg62-dev 
  libpng12-dev libungif4-dev xlibs-dev g++ libexpat1-dev libxmltok1 
  libxmltok1-dev libxrender-dev  x11proto-render-dev xnest

Compiling Alchemy and required dependencies
===========================================

The compiled libraries will be installed in $HOME/alchemy-dev/,
in your machine. You can change this by editing line with HOMEDIR=$HOME/alchemy-devel 
in openalchemy-core/build_alchemycore.sh

* The build_alchemycore.sh script will setup the Alchemy development environment 
  by building pimglib, picowidget, alchemy, tcl, tk, pgettext, APIs,
  megawidgets, pwrap, liblang, alchemy_theme and picopeta_fonts.

You can also install the required packages individually by browsing into
the respective directories and 

* ./initialize
* ./configure
* make
* make install


Using Alchemy
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Execute the openalchemy script to start Alchemy.


Contact
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http://openalchemy.org mailing lists.

Press 'q' to proceed with installation.