Download and Installation Instructions:

Evaluation Software:

This release of BX PRO for Linux is distributed as several packages, using the RedHat Package Manager (RPM).

Builder Xcessory PRO for Linux consists of three products:

• Builder Xcessory
  --a user interface design tool for X/Motif
• EnhancementPak
  --a set of 34 new Motif-based widgets
• ViewKit
  --a high-quality C++ application framework for X11/Motif.

REQUIREMENTS

On some Linux distributions, you may need to install additional required libraries. BX PRO was compiled on RedHat Linux 5.1 and requires the following system libraries:

• ld-linux.so.2
• libICE.so.6
• libSM.so.6
• libX11.so.6
• libXext.so.6
• libXmu.so.6
• libXp.so.6
• libXpm.so.4
• libXt.so.6
• libc.so.6
• libdl.so.2
• libm.so.6

Download RPM Files

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INSTALLATION

1. Become the superuser.
2. Change directories to the directory containing the BX PRO RPM files.
3. Install the packages either all at once or individually in the following order:
   • rpm -i bxpro-eval-viewkit-egcs11-1.3.1-2.i386.rpm
   • rpm -i bxpro-eval-epak-3.0.3-1.i386.rpm
   • rpm -i bxpro-eval-5.0.8-1.i386.rpm
   • rpm -i bxpro-eval-binary-egcs11-5.0.8-1.i386.rpm
   • rpm -i bxpro-eval-codegen-5.0.8-1.i386.rpm

If unspecified, the BX PRO distribution will be installed in /opt/bxpro-5.0. You can specify another installation directory by using the --prefix option to the rpm command (use the --relocate option if you are using RPM version 3.0 or hi gher).

RUNNING BUILDER XCESSORY

After installation, a script, bx50, will be installed in /usr/bin/X11. Use this script to run Builder Xcessory.

DOCUMENTATION

All Builder Xcessory documentation is available online in HTML format. It is accessible from the BX Help menu or directly from Netscape at:
file:<bxpro install directory/xcessory/help/C/index.html

Updated documentation is posted periodically at the ICS website: http://linux.ics.com/

A printable version of these instructions.

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