- Dependencies
Note that you should have build tools, build dependencies and runtime dependencies installed. The exact method to do this depends on your OS.
On Ubuntu, for example, you should get:
sudo apt-get install packaging-dev pkg-config python-dev libpango1.0-dev libglib2.0-dev libxml2-dev giflib-dbg libjpeg-dev libtiff-dev uthash-dev
libspiro-dev
- Installing
To install from a git checkout:
./bootstrap
./configure
make
[sudo] make install
Note: you can see the build dependencies in the
debian/control
file (or you can run sudo ./debian/deb-build-dep if you have aptitude to automate
this).
- Linking
If after installation, running fontforge gives you some
"*.so cannot open shared object file" style errors, you
might have to run this as well:
sudo ldconfig