Sylpheed

Installation

============

This program requires GTK+ 2.4.0 or later to be compiled (GTK+ 2.6.0 or later

is recommended).

This program is developed on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 10.04 LTS / Windows XP.

It is possible that it dosen't work correctly on other environments.

Curretnly it is confirmed to work on the following environments

(Note: they might not work with the latest version):

Linux

o Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (development environment)

o Ubuntu 11.10

o Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (development environment)

o Ubuntu 9.04 / 9.10

o Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron) (glibc 2.7) (development environment)

o Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) (glibc 2.5)

o Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) (glibc 2.4)

o Debian GNU/Linux (i386/sid) (glibc 2.3.6)

o Debian GNU/Linux (amd64/sid-based) (glibc 2.3.5)

o Debian GNU/Linux (squeeze)

o Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny)

o Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge) (glibc 2.3.2)

o Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody) (glibc 2.2.5)

o Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (potato) (glibc 2.1.3)

o Fedora 11 / 12

o Fedora Core 2 / 3

o Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 / 5

o RedHat Linux 5.2 (glibc 2.0.7)

o RedHat Linux 6.0

o RedHat Linux 6.1 + Helix GNOME (glibc 2.1.x)

o RedHat Linux 6.2 / 6.2J (glibc 2.1.x)

o RedHat Linux 7.0 / 7.0J / 7.1 / 7.2 / 7.3 / 8.0 / 9.0

o Vine Linux 1.1 (glibc 2.0.x + libwcsmbs)

o Vine Linux 2.0 (glibc 2.1.x) (Intel, PPC)

o Vine Linux 2.1 / 2.1.5 / 2.5 / 2.6 / 3.0

o Vine Linux 4.2CR / 5.0 / 5.1

o TurboLinux 4.0 (glibc 2.0.7 + libwcsmbs)

o TurboLinux 6.0 (glibc 2.1.2)

o TurboLinux 7.0 (glibc 2.2.x)

o Miracle Linux Standard Edition Version1.0

o Miracle Linux for PostgreSQL Version1.0

o Miracle Linux for Samba Version1.0

o Laser5 Linux 6.0 / 6.2 / 6.4 (glibc 2.1.x)

o Kondara MNU/Linux 1.0 (glibc 2.1.x) / 1.2 / 2.0

o Momonga Linux 6.1 / dev

o LinuxPPC2000 + Yukikaze (Japanization kit)

o Linux2000G (Intel / PPC)

o HOLON Linux 2.0 (Intel / PPC)

o Linux for PPC Japanese Edition 2.0 (glibc 2.1.x)

o Linux for PPC Japanese Edition 3.0 (glibc 2.1.x)

o LinuxPPC Q4 2000 (glibc 2.1.x)

o Linux MLD4/5

o Plamo Linux 2.0 / 2.1 / 2.2.x / 3.0

o Slackware 7.0 / 7.1 / 8.0 / 8.1 / 9.0 / 10.0 / 12.2 / 13.0

o Mandrake Linux 7.0 / 7.1 / 7.2 / 8.0 / 8.1 / 9.0 / 9.1 / 10.0

o Mandriva 2008.0 / 2008.1 / 2009.0 / 2009.1 / 2010.0 / 2010.1

o SuSE Linux 6.3 (glibc 2.1.2) / 6.4

o SuSE Linux 7.0 / 7.1 / 7.2 / 7.3 / 8.0 / 8.1 / 8.2

o OpenSUSE 11.1 / 11.2

o OpenLinux 2.3 (glibc 2.1.1 -> 2.1.3)

o Caldera OpenDesktop 2.4

o Caldera Workstation 3.1

o Conectiva Linux 4.0 / 5.0 / 7.0 / 8.0

o Vector Linux 1.5

o Yellow Dog Linux 2.0 (glibc 2.2.1)

o Yellow Dog Linux 2.1 (PowerPC)

o ASP Linux 7.2 (glibc 2.2.4)

o Redmond Linux (Lycoris)

o Gentoo Linux 1.x / 2004.2 (i386 / amd64)

o Arch Linux

o LinuxFromScratch

o Pardus 2009 / Corporate2

BSD

o FreeBSD 3.2/3.4-RELEASE

o FreeBSD 4.0/4.1/4.2/4.3/4.4/4.5/4.6-RELEASE

o FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE

o FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT

o FreeBSD 7-STABLE / 7.1R / 7.2R

o FreeBSD 8.0R

o NetBSD 1.4.2

o NetBSD 1.5 + XPG4DL

o NetBSD 1.5.1 / 1.5.2

o OpenBSD 2.7 / 2.8 / 2.9 / 3.0 / 3.1 / 3.6

o DragonFlyBSD 2.5.1

o PC-BSD 8.0

o BSD/OS 4.0.1

Others

o OpenSolaris 2009.06

Other commercial Unix

o Solaris 2.5 / 2.5.1 / 2.6

o Solaris 7 / 8 / 9 / 10

o AIX 4.3.3

o IRIX 6.3 / 6.4 / 6.5 6.5.8m

o HP-UX 10.20 / 11.0 / 11i

o Tru64 Unix 5.0 (OSF1 V5.0)

o Mac OS X 10.1.4 (Darwin 5.4) + XDarwin (without XLocale support) + libxpg4

o Mac OS X 10.2.3 (Darwin 6.3) + Apple X11 PublicBeta 0.1 + XLocale fix patch

o Mac OS X 10.3 / 10.4 + X11 for Mac OS X

Windows

o Windows XP / Vista / 7 / 8 (MinGW 32bit)

Build it

========

Please make sure that gtk-devel and glib-devel (or similar) packages are

installed before the compilation (you may also require flex (lex) and bison

(yacc)).

To compile and install, just type:

% ./configure

% make

% su

Password: [Enter password]

# make install

Additional libraries

====================

Compface library is required for X-Face support.

You can get compface utilities and library from the following location:

  http://freshmeat.net/projects/compface/

GnuPG (>= 1.2.0) and GPGME (>= 1.0.0) are required for GnuPG (PGP) support.

You can get GnuPG and GPGME from the following location:

  ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gpgme/

  ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gnupg/

GtkSpell is required for spell checking feature.

  http://gtkspell.sourceforge.net/

OpenSSL is required for SSL support.

  http://www.openssl.org/

Pilot-link is required for JPilot support.

  http://www.pilot-link.org/

OpenLDAP library is required for LDAP support.

  http://www.openldap.org/

Update check feature requires Curl command.

  http://curl.haxx.se/

Options for configure script

============================

  --disable-gpgme        disable GnuPG support (requires GPGME and GnuPG)

  --disable-ssl          disable SSL support (requires OpenSSL)

  --disable-compface     disable compface (X-Face) support

  --disable-gtkspell     disable spell checking feature (requires GtkSpell)

  --disable-threads      disable multi-threading support

  --disable-ipv6         disable IPv6 support

  --disable-updatecheck  disable update check feature

                         (updatecheckplugin will also be disabled)

  --disable-updatecheckplugin

                         disable plug-in update check feature

  --enable-jpilot        enable JPilot support

  --enable-ldap          enable LDAP support

  --enable-oniguruma     use Oniguruma instead of system's regex

For other options, refer to ./configure --help .

If the installation of Sylpheed failed, check whether all the required

libraries are correctly installed. If it still failed, please send bug

report to:

  Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y@kcn.ne.jp>