Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1188 mails)

[Roger Luedecke <roger.luedecke@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2012-01-09 at 20:02 -0500, Carl Hartung wrote: 
> On Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:25:45 -0800
> Roger Luedecke <roger.luedecke@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 2012-01-09 at 18:28 -0500, Carl Hartung wrote: 
> > > On Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:21:43 +0000
> > > Thomas Hertweck <Thomas.Hertweck@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On 09/01/12 22:58, Roger Luedecke wrote:
> > > > > I'm commissioned to start a small book project, and vaguely
> > > > > remember seeing a wikilike piece of software that would
> > > > > facilitate this well. I intend to start with a conceptual
> > > > > outline, and then flesh each section out. Any recommendations?
> > > >
> > > > You are supposed to write a book? LaTeX should do fine. If you
> > > > don't know about LaTeX yet, it will be a steep learning curve
> > > > though.
> > > >
> > > > Th.
> > >
> > > I'd recommend checking out Zim 0.52, "A desktop wiki"
> > > http://www.zim-wiki.org/
> > >
> > > hth & regards,
> > >
> > > Carl
> > Looks good, but not available for openSUSE.
>
> I'm running openSUSE 11.4 x86_64 and Zim 0.54 here (I just upgraded Zim)
>
> Use the package manager to ensure the prerequisites are installed:
>
> gtk+ >= 2.6
> python >= 2.5
> python-gtk
> python-gobject
> python-simplejson (for python < 2.6)
> python-xdg (optional, but recommended)
> xdg-utils (optional, but recommended)
>
> Download the tarball and decompress it in your home directory.
>
> Add a launcher to your panel...
> Name: "Zim - a desktop wiki"
> Command: "/home/<you>/zim-0.54/zim.py"
> Icon: "/home/<you>/zim-0.54/icons/zim16.svg"
>
> You're done.
>
> Spend a little time reading the FAQ and related docs on the website.
> Play around with it a little bit. If you don't use it for the book you
> might just use it for other things, as I do. It's not too simple, not
> too complicated... it just gets the job done.
>
> regards,
>
> Carl
Groovy. I got it installed. For some reason it doesn't want to be pinned
to docky though.

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