Htmlppc — Installation

Installation

The installation of htmlppc on a unixoid system is very simple. After extracting the downloaded archive and changing to the HTMLppc directory, just type:

$ make
$ make install 

Htmlppc is installed in /usr/local.

But I want it in /usr!

Because there is no ./configure script, you have to edit the Makefile with your favorite editor. Change the TARGETDIR to anything you like. If you are not root, even a local installation is possible. Or you can just move the file htmlppc in a directory in your path.

But I use Microsoft Windows!

Fine. I do not. We all use the best operating system, that's the reason why we use it.

But Python is platform independent, and you can use htmlppc, if a Python interpreter is installed. Sometimes things are easy…

Unixoid systems do not use filename extensions to recognise the type of a file, and Windows does. All you have to do is rename the file htmlppc to htmlppc.py, and Windows knows that it is a Python program, which has to be processed by the Python interpreter. Windows will warn you that you may make the file unuseable by changing its extension, but you make it useable. After you've done it, you can copy or move the htmlppc.py in the directory with your project and start it simply with a double click to run it.

There should be no problems with the different line ending conventions of unixoid systems and Windows. But if you want to read or edit htmlppc, I recommend you to use a better editor than notepad.exe.

But I'm a Macintosh user!

You are an user of a unixoid system. But to me, MacOS is a strange world and I can say nothing helpful about it. If you have problems, you will find help in the internet.