#1 howto install pdesk in linux

[Joe Werne]

i have explored pdesk functionality in windows, but i
am not a windows user. can anyone help with a
step-by-step installation howto in linux? what
variables must i set in which files? how do i compile?
how do i install? has anyone build an install script
for linux?

-joe

[Sascha Kolski]

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Hello Joe,

after I saw your message I thoght about a "me too" posting,
but I worked out how to do it.

To start pdesk you do not need to install. But you need the
wxPythonGTK Package provided by

http://www.wxpython.org/

(or from your distribution, for me, with debian, it was
available)

After installing this package for your python version you
just go to the src directory within the pdesk files and type

python pdesk.pyw

The program starts. There is an error messages about a not
found project file, seems that it looks for an allready
existing project to start. Also some .exe is not found, but
the software seems to work so far.

hope that helps,

sascha

[Joe Werne]

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greetings sascha: it turns out i got help from Laurent via
personal email, but certainly the contents should be posted
to the web. here is his reply, along with a perl script i
use so i only have to type "pdesk" to get it to run. hope
this is useful to someone. -joe
====================
Hi Joe,

we, guys, are me ;-)
There's no activity, because I have no time to develop for
PDesk now.
There's no build, compile or whatever, because it's python,
and it's
interpreted. Just install python 2.2 and wxPython 2.4.0.2
www.python.org
www.wxpython.org
then, run :
python pdesk.pyw
in the directory where pdesk.pyw is located. That's all.
There's no install for now under linux. I use a little
script in my $HOME/bin
which does :
cd where_pdesk_is_located
python pdesk.pyw

Bye,
Laurent
=========================
now for the perl script i wrote to just type "pdesk" ...

#!/usr/bin/perl

use Cwd;
use strict;

# get current current working directory
my ( $pwd ) = cwd();

# define pdesk working directory
my ( $pdesk_dir ) = "/export/data1/werne/Linux/pdesk/src";

# go to pdesk directory
chdir $pdesk_dir;

# execute pdesk
`python pdesk.pyw`;

# change back to $pwd
chdir $pwd;

__END__

[Judd Rogers]

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First, be sure you have cvs installed.

Follow the instructions on sourceforge for fetching the source using cvs:
http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=9244
Anonymous cvs access is sufficient.

As I recall, you do this:
cd <some directory>
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@c...:/cvsroot/progect login
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@c...:/cvsroot/progect co progect

Once you do this, you can update the source any time you need to
thus:
cvs update

Now you have the source and a way to get updates.

To run pdesk:
cd <some directory>/pdesk/src
python pdesk.pyw &

Judd

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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Yes, we can describe how to do it, could you please post
your question on progect@yahoogroups.com.

I'm sorry for the delay, I'm not subscribed to support
requests on PDesk...

Rick Price