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[Henri Lesourd <address@hidden>]

> Hi,
>
> I would like to find out if it is possible to install texmacs on a Sun 
> server running solaris 8.
Of course, it is !

> I have tried installing the binary 
> TeXmacs-1.0.4-R3-static-gnu-linux.tar.gz but on trying to run it I got 
> a syntax error as follows…
>
> texmacs.bin: syntax error at line 1: `(' unexpected
Strange. I would not expect such an error message when running a binary 
file... This look more
like the kind of things which happen when one tries to run a bash script 
using tcsh, or something
like that.

Anyway, it is not sure that the Solaris/Linux binary compatibility works 
very well, so it would be
much better to compile from the sources (10mn on my pentium 2Ghz : this 
is not a big deal, and
it works well).

> I was thinking of trying to compile from source, but from what I can 
> gather I would need to compile and install other products before I 
> could do this.
You need very few things in fact, namely Guile (Scheme interpreter) and 
FreeType (free library for true
type fonts). It could be useful to install Metafont, also, but TeXmacs 
should work without that, I think.
It should be noted that you --don't-- need to install TeX/LaTeX in order 
to install TeXmacs.

URLs :
* Guile : http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/guile.html
* FreeType : http://freetype.sourceforge.net

Henri