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[nongnu] elpa/pdf-tools bfef238480 1/2: Re-arrange server installation instructions |
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Sun, 13 Feb 2022 14:00:05 -0500 (EST) |
branch: elpa/pdf-tools
commit bfef2384809ea4b4b12bba1cbe7196a10cc5a8c9
Author: Vedang Manerikar <ved.manerikar@gmail.com>
Commit: Vedang Manerikar <ved.manerikar@gmail.com>
Re-arrange server installation instructions
Mention pre-built binaries provided by Debian, Ubuntu and MingW
Closes: #79
---
README.org | 85 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
1 file changed, 57 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
diff --git a/README.org b/README.org
index d021aa9cbb..c0d8f32ba7 100644
--- a/README.org
+++ b/README.org
@@ -32,10 +32,10 @@ Actually, displaying PDF files is just one part of
~pdf-tools~. Since ~poppler~
Installing this package via NonGNU ELPA or MELPA or any of the other package
managers is straightforward and should just work.
~pdf-tools~ requires a server ~epdfinfo~ to run against, which it will try to
compile and build when it is activated for the first time.
-You should not require any manual changes. The documentation below is if you
are installing from source, or for troubleshooting / debugging purposes.
+You should not require any manual changes. The documentation below is *only*
if you are installing from source, or for troubleshooting / debugging purposes.
- [[brain-child:8ce3cf4e-d186-4de1-a40e-f41063068ab0][Installing ~epdfinfo~
server prerequisites]]
-- [[brain-child:e305cd0a-e798-4c2b-af27-21bcd936c1c9][Compiling and Installing
the ~epdfinfo~ server]]
+- [[brain-child:e305cd0a-e798-4c2b-af27-21bcd936c1c9][Installing the
~epdfinfo~ server]]
- [[brain-child:3d4e6b6b-f015-475d-8ea2-84988efd6c22][Installing ~pdf-tools~
elisp prerequisites]]
- [[brain-child:32c4fc3b-b4ea-43bd-b92c-bdf2d3831fcf][Installing ~pdf-tools~
elisp code]]
@@ -44,11 +44,17 @@ You should not require any manual changes. The
documentation below is if you are
:CREATED: [2021-12-29 Wed 18:34]
:ID: 8ce3cf4e-d186-4de1-a40e-f41063068ab0
:END:
-You'll need GNU Emacs \ge 24.3 and some form of a GNU/Linux OS. Other
operating systems are not officially supported, but ~pdf-tools~ is known to
work on many of them. See links below for more details. The following
instructions assume a Debian-based system.
+You'll need GNU Emacs \ge 26.1 and some form of a GNU/Linux OS. Other
operating systems are not officially supported, but ~pdf-tools~ is known to
work on many of them. Similarly, package-managers are not officially supported,
but ~pdf-tools~ is known to be available on some of them. See the links below,
and in the [[id:fb5cef15-fed4-4dec-a443-52f7c00c7831][Installing the ~epdfinfo~
server from package managers]] section for more details.
+*** Installing ~epdfinfo~ Server Prerequisites on a Debian-based system
+:PROPERTIES:
+:CREATED: [2022-02-13 Sun 23:17]
+:ID: abaae1be-3bbb-4d99-90e7-5429c56083e1
+:END:
First make sure a suitable build-system is installed. We need at least a C/C++
compiler (both ~gcc~ and ~g++~), ~make~, ~automake~ and ~autoconf~.
Next we need to install a few libraries ~pdf-tools~ depends on, some of which
are probably already on your system.
+
#+begin_src sh
$ sudo apt install libpng-dev zlib1g-dev libpoppler-glib-dev
libpoppler-private-dev
#+end_src
@@ -70,7 +76,7 @@ Finally there is one feature (following links of a PDF
document by plain keystro
#+begin_src sh
$ sudo apt install imagemagick
#+end_src
-*** Installing Server Prerequisites On macOS
+*** Installing ~epdfinfo~ Server Prerequisites On macOS
:PROPERTIES:
:CREATED: [2021-12-29 Wed 18:34]
:ID: f10e9d94-bdec-44dc-8d3c-1816d62ef1c4
@@ -87,7 +93,7 @@ You will also have to help ~pkg-config~ find some libraries
by setting ~PKG_CONF
or likewise within Emacs using ~setenv~.
After that, compilation should proceed as normal.
-*** Installing Server Prerequisites On FreeBSD
+*** Installing ~epdfinfo~ Server Prerequisites On FreeBSD
:PROPERTIES:
:CREATED: [2021-12-29 Wed 18:34]
:ID: 00faf3e3-6d09-4cf7-9373-838f3d231504
@@ -105,7 +111,7 @@ To build ~pdf-tools~ from either MELPA or directly from the
source repository, i
#+END_SRC
If you choose not to install from MELPA, you must substitute ~gmake~ for
~make~ in the instructions below.
-*** Installing Server Prerequisites On CentOS
+*** Installing ~epdfinfo~ Server Prerequisites On CentOS
:PROPERTIES:
:CREATED: [2021-12-29 Wed 18:34]
:ID: e39946d0-3a28-405d-bb23-337120412dac
@@ -114,7 +120,7 @@ If you choose not to install from MELPA, you must
substitute ~gmake~ for ~make~
$ yum install poppler-devel poppler-glib-devel
#+END_SRC
-*** Installing Server Prerequisites On Fedora
+*** Installing ~epdfinfo~ Server Prerequisites On Fedora
:PROPERTIES:
:CREATED: [2021-12-29 Wed 18:34]
:ID: d0013822-f4d0-4354-b3db-c54ffe41ce58
@@ -123,7 +129,7 @@ If you choose not to install from MELPA, you must
substitute ~gmake~ for ~make~
$ sudo dnf install make automake autoconf gcc gcc-c++ ImageMagick
libpng-devel zlib-devel poppler-glib-devel
#+END_SRC
-*** Installing Server Prerequisites On Alpine Linux
+*** Installing ~epdfinfo~ Server Prerequisites On Alpine Linux
:PROPERTIES:
:CREATED: [2021-12-29 Wed 18:34]
:ID: 443d9b18-096e-4770-b59c-4e472a5d4b0e
@@ -132,50 +138,41 @@ If you choose not to install from MELPA, you must
substitute ~gmake~ for ~make~
$ apk add build-base g++ gcc automake autoconf libpng-dev glib-dev
poppler-dev
#+END_SRC
-*** Installing Server Prerequisites On Windows
+*** Installing ~epdfinfo~ Server Prerequisites On Windows
:PROPERTIES:
:CREATED: [2021-12-29 Wed 18:34]
:ID: 005243cb-1557-4f94-a73d-e647e0d4b53d
:END:
~pdf-tools~ can be built and used on Windows using the MSYS2 compiler, or
pre-built binaries can be installed in MSYS2.
-The Pre-built binaries will work with native (not cygwin) Windows builds of
Emacs. They include the standard binaries provided by the GNU project, those
available as MSYS2 packages and numerous third-party binaries. Instructions are
provided under [[id:d14e01ff-9bd5-47ee-86fc-859b4499d5d7][Compilation and
installation on Window]] below.
+The pre-built binaries will work with native (not Cygwin) Windows builds of
Emacs. They include the standard binaries provided by the GNU project, those
available as MSYS2 packages and numerous third-party binaries. Refer to the
appropriate section under [[id:e305cd0a-e798-4c2b-af27-21bcd936c1c9][Installing
the ~epdfinfo~ server]] for more details.
~pdf-tools~ will successfully compile using Cygwin, but it will not be able to
open PDFs properly due to the way binaries compiled with Cygwin handle file
paths.
-** Compiling and Installing the ~epdfinfo~ server
+** Installing the ~epdfinfo~ server
:PROPERTIES:
:CREATED: [2021-12-29 Wed 18:34]
:ID: e305cd0a-e798-4c2b-af27-21bcd936c1c9
:END:
+*** Compiling and Installing the ~epdfinfo~ server from source on Linux
+:PROPERTIES:
+:CREATED: [2022-02-13 Sun 23:11]
+:ID: bd7fd084-8fdf-4698-b40a-da75920d17ed
+:END:
+Note that this is the only officially supported method for installing the
~epdfinfo~ binary. Instructions:
+
#+begin_src sh
$ cd /path/to/pdf-tools
$ make -s
#+end_src
This should compile the source code and create a Emacs Lisp Package in the
root directory of the project. The configure script also tells you at the very
end, which features, depending on the ~libpoppler~ version, will be available.
These commands should give no error, otherwise you are in trouble.
-*** Installing the ~epdinfo~ server On Windows
+*** Compiling and Installing the ~epdfinfo~ server from source on Windows
:PROPERTIES:
:CREATED: [2021-12-29 Wed 18:34]
:ID: d14e01ff-9bd5-47ee-86fc-859b4499d5d7
:END:
-**** Using the pre-built MINGW packages from MSYS2
-:PROPERTIES:
-:CREATED: [2022-02-13 Sun 22:55]
-:ID: 1fc6e25b-ae09-45d7-8288-c57c7065326c
-:END:
-Users installing Emacs from the MSYS2 distribution can install pre-build
binaries of the ~epdfinfo~ server.
-
-1. [[https://www.msys2.org/][Install MSYS2]] and update the package database
and core packages using the instructions provided.
-2. Install packages: ~pacman -Ss
mingw-w64-x86_64-{emacs,emacs-pdf-tools-server,imagemagick}~ (ImageMagick is
optional, see above.)
-3. Make sure Emacs can find ~epdfinfo.exe~. Either add the MINGW install
location (e.g. ~C:/msys2/mingw64/bin~) to the system path with ~setx PATH
"C:\msys2\mingw64\bin;%PATH%"~ or set Emacs's path with ~(setenv "PATH" (concat
"C:\\msys64\\mingw64\\bin;" (getenv "PATH")))~. Note that libraries from other
GNU utilities, such as Git for Windows, may interfere with those needed by
~pdf-tools~. ~pdf-info-check-epdinfo~ will succeed, but errors occur when
trying to view a PDF file. This can b [...]
-4. Add ~(pdf-tools-install)~ to your Emacs config.
-**** Compiling the ~epdfinfo~ server On Windows
-:PROPERTIES:
-:CREATED: [2022-02-13 Sun 22:58]
-:ID: d0aa0c5f-fc64-49a4-8593-ab09522289ff
-:END:
If using the GNU binaries for Windows, support for PNG and ~zlib~ must first
be installed by copying the appropriate dlls into emacs' ~bin/~ directory. Most
third-party binaries come with this already done.
First, [[https://www.msys2.org/][install MSYS2]] and update the package
database and core packages using the instructions provided. Then, to compile
~pdf-tools~ itself:
@@ -213,6 +210,38 @@ First, [[https://www.msys2.org/][install MSYS2]] and
update the package database
If this is successful, ~(pdf-tools-install)~ can be added to Emacs' config.
See the note on how to set up PATH in the previous section.
+*** Installing the ~epdfinfo~ server from package managers
+:PROPERTIES:
+:CREATED: [2022-02-13 Sun 23:10]
+:ID: fb5cef15-fed4-4dec-a443-52f7c00c7831
+:END:
+Note that the packages available on these package managers are not maintained
by the author and might be outdated.
+**** Using the pre-built MINGW packages from MSYS2 on Windows
+:PROPERTIES:
+:CREATED: [2022-02-13 Sun 22:55]
+:ID: 1fc6e25b-ae09-45d7-8288-c57c7065326c
+:END:
+Package maintained at:
https://packages.msys2.org/package/mingw-w64-x86_64-emacs-pdf-tools-server?repo=mingw64
+
+Users installing Emacs from the MSYS2 distribution can install pre-built
binaries of the ~epdfinfo~ server.
+
+1. [[https://www.msys2.org/][Install MSYS2]] and update the package database
and core packages using the instructions provided.
+2. Install packages: ~pacman -Ss
mingw-w64-x86_64-{emacs,emacs-pdf-tools-server,imagemagick}~ (ImageMagick is
optional, see above.)
+3. Make sure Emacs can find ~epdfinfo.exe~. Either add the MINGW install
location (e.g. ~C:/msys2/mingw64/bin~) to the system path with ~setx PATH
"C:\msys2\mingw64\bin;%PATH%"~ or set Emacs's path with ~(setenv "PATH" (concat
"C:\\msys64\\mingw64\\bin;" (getenv "PATH")))~. Note that libraries from other
GNU utilities, such as Git for Windows, may interfere with those needed by
~pdf-tools~. ~pdf-info-check-epdinfo~ will succeed, but errors occur when
trying to view a PDF file. This can b [...]
+4. Add ~(pdf-tools-install)~ to your Emacs config.
+
+**** Using the pre-built packages from Debian
+:PROPERTIES:
+:CREATED: [2022-02-13 Sun 23:30]
+:ID: 416af9e8-b437-4f6e-ac21-15b79822780e
+:END:
+Package maintained at: https://packages.debian.org/buster/elpa-pdf-tools-server
+**** Using the pre-built packages from Ubuntu
+:PROPERTIES:
+:CREATED: [2022-02-13 Sun 23:31]
+:ID: b2c49338-845f-421a-93f3-a3da5efcc4ac
+:END:
+Package maintained at: https://packages.ubuntu.com/impish/elpa-pdf-tools-server
** Installing ~pdf-tools~ elisp prerequisites
:PROPERTIES:
:CREATED: [2021-12-29 Wed 18:34]