INSTALLATION OF STARPLOT

1. Prerequisites

You will need to have version 2 of the GTK+ library, including the pkg-config
tool and the development headers (gtk.h, gdk.h, etc.), installed on your
system.  Many Linux distributions will include these by default.  On RedHat,
you will need to have the gtk2-devel RPM installed.  On Debian, have the
libgtk2.0-dev package installed.  On Mac OS X, have the Fink packages
gtk+2-dev and atk1 installed.  For other Linux distributions and Unices,
refer to your system documentation.

2. Normal installation

For generic configure instructions, see the file INSTALL.generic in this
directory.  In general, for a normal installation of StarPlot you should need
to type only this:

	./configure && make && sudo make install

Of course, you must have permissions to run "make install" as root.  If not,
use configure's "--prefix <dir>" flag to install StarPlot to a directory within
your home directory.

* To create a Debian package and install it,

	fakeroot debian/rules binary && sudo dpkg -i ../starplot_<version>*.deb

* To create an RPM and install it,

	(sorry, this isn't yet implemented)

3. StarPlot-specific options to the configure script

Currently none.

4. Installing StarPlot data files

This cannot be done until you have installed StarPlot itself.  The man page for
the "starpkg" script should tell you everything you need to know.  To make your
own StarPlot data files, see the man page for "starconvert".

