Installation Instructions for SubTile

Subversion (Prerequisite)

Download and install Subversion (client part would suffice). Again on UNIX just use your packet installer (keyword: subversion), on Windows - or on any other platform - download it from Apache. Please, ensure the location of SVN libraries is on your PATH or LIB_PATH, most Subversion installations would setup it correctly but sometimes it needs helping hand - for more details see FAQ.

For OSX users: Apple ships own version of libapr incompatible with Subversion, thus Homebrew cannot create proper symlinks to libapr in /usr/local/lib causing SubTile to crash, in this case you should download and execute macos-apr-prep.sh and configure LibSVN location in SubTile to point to /usr/local/opt/subversion.

For Ubuntu users: some versions of Ubuntu ships broken libsvn, if SubTile crashes on startup in your installation, try installing libsvn-dev - most certainly apt will refuse that due to incompatibility of libldap2, try resolve version conflict with Aptitude (choosing downgrade of libldap2) then.

For users of newer Debian: Debian removes rigorously older libraries from the distro, chances are your installation is missing some SubTile dependencies. If SubTile GUI doesn't launch, try starting it from the terminal and note the error messages. For blank installation of Bookworm you may try running deb-dependencies.sh.

For Windows on ARM users: the only native ARM64 SVN distribution I am aware of is SlikSVN however it misses VC runtime libraries to be functional.

SubTile 0.3 (Native)

Download installer package(s) suitable for your OS: DEB/RPM - for Linux, DMG - for OSX or EXE for MS Windows, and install them according to rules of your preferred package manager. In case provided installers don't work for you or simply aren't desired, you could try "portable" binary builds (ZIP, TGZ). All packages are provided for 64 bit systems only, 32 bit architectures are and will not be targeted any longer.

SubTile 0.2 (XUL, Discontinued)

No dedicated installer is provided for XUL version, you don't actually need one, as installation steps are simple and easy to follow.

1. Download and install latest version of XULRunner (or Firefox - s. note below): on UNIX based system just use your favorite package manager (keyword: xulrunner), for Windows there's a most recent version tested with SubTile available here, alternatively you can download it yourself from Mozilla.
2. Download latest version of SubTile from here (SubTile-*/SubTile-*.zip), unzip it to a location you like.

After you have completed the steps above you can run SubTile with xulrunner <SUBTILE_PATH>/application.ini. Note: MDN states: "Firefox can run any compatible XULRunner application using the -app switch: firefox -app application.ini". Tests with current versions of Firefox show that this might actually be the way of choice, so try it out and report your exerience.