Alt-things re-uploaded

[Peter Alcibiades]

It would be very nice if someone could post some instructions, even one or two 
lines, on how to (a) install these things (b) use them, under Linux.   The 
Linux versions consist of three .rev files. The documentation tells you what
to do with either the Windows or the Mac versions, but there are no 
instructions about Linux.  This is what I have tried so far:

-  put them in the top level Rev folder
-  put them in plugins folder
-  put them in third party folder
-  created an Externals folder at the top level and put them in that

restarting Rev on each occasion.

There are no perceptible effects from any of the above.

-  looked for a home stack to try to set it to use them

Can't find one.

-  run them as a shell script with root privileges and with user priveliges

Permission is denied.

-  open message box on Rev start and try 'set the external of this stack 
to....' one of them. 

Compile error, double binaries.

- open them in an editor to see what they do

They will open in Kate, but it detects binaries and warns of corruption on 
save.

Is there some very simple process which I've simply failed to grasp?  Or do 
they maybe just not work in Linux?

Peter


On Thursday 25 January 2007 19:59, J. Landman Gay wrote:
> Some problems with the alt-externals have been corrected. If you tried
> before and they didn't work, try again. New, fixed versions have just
> been uploaded to the same web page. I'm not sure if I am supposed to
> post the URL here or not, so check your RR email announcement for it.
>
> The fixes include correcting the installation directory and externals
> path, as well as an error that occured unzipping the altFont file.