Introduction

These generic instructions are Linux specific. The editor may or may not work under other operating systems (this is yet to be tested).

To compile TextRoom on Linux, you will need the Qt4 development libraries (ver. 4.3.2 or later). To hear the sounds you will need libsdl 1.2.13 and libsdl-mixer 1.2.8.

Windows port includes the necessary libraries.

Details

Download the latest version of TextRoom. Drop to command line and type:

tar xzvf ./textroom-xxx.tar.gz

to unarchive, followed by:

cd ./textroom-xxx

Then execute:

qmake-qt4

and

make

to compile the editor. After successful compilation, you may start TextRoom simply by typing bin/textroom (not recommended). Or, to install it system wide, type as root:

make install

which will place a copy of the executable file in /usr/local/bin. Start the editor by typing:

textroom

or clicking the menu icon under Office.

and press F1 for help.

Uninstallation

If you've installed TextRoom from the deb package, there should be an entry in synaptic. But if there isn't you can remove the package by typing sudo apt-get remove textroom in a terminal.

If you've installed from the Linux Installer, there isn't an uninstaller. But you can remove the files by rm commands in a terminal, which are:

sudo rm /usr/bin/textroom
sudo rm /usr/share/applications/TextRoom.desktop
sudo rm -r /usr/local/share/textroom
sudo rm /usr/share/pixmaps/textroom.png

Those are all the files of textroom.

If you've installed from source code, you can do sudo make uninstall in the source code directory. If you've removed the source code, you can download and untar the source from the TextRoom site, and in the source directory again qmake-qt4 && make && sudo make uninstall