Installing Player / Stage

Playing around with the Player / Stage project from source for a tad bit of research. A few install notes to help others headed in this direction.

Player

Pretty nice installer with (seemingly) clear output about what packages will not be built and why. Somehow I missed the fact that playerv would not be installed due to a number of missing packages in this output. Digging through some mail logs I found that I should also install the packages: libfltk1.1-dev libgtk2.0-dev libgdk-pixbuf-dev libgnomeui-dev Also, remember that rerunning configure does not force code to be rebuilt. A make clean solves that. Oops.

Stage

Just needed to install cmake.

Good DVI to PDF Conversion

Old school Latex user and want to produce clean PDF files without pdflatex? The following steps tend to work pretty well after you've generated a dvi using latex:

• dvips -P cmz -t letter -o file.ps file.dvi
• ps2pdf file.ps file.pdf

If the '-P cmz' option to dvips does not work, some folks have luck with '-P pdf'.