Hello,
If I am right, Linux Mint Cinamon is "based" on Ubuntu 12.04.
SCID 4.3 is already packaged in the Software center. So you should be able to install it automatically by using your software center, or by using this command line if you prefer :
sudo apt-get install scid
You can also install the "rating data" of all players by using your software center or this command lines :
sudo apt-get install scid-rating-data
Let me know if it works...
Cheers LM, I've tried that but after unpacking I can't find SCID anywhere. Add to that, I read in a few forums that the program in th software manager is the last version Shane worked on (i.e. very old), so I would really like to get the latest update onto my Linux machine.
I've opened a ticket at Sourceforge, and I'll keep everyone posted on the result!
Hello,
To run SCID on your computer, you have to use a terminal and to run "scid".
You can also create a shortcut on your desktop.
The last official version is the 4.3 : http://scid.sourceforge.net/download.html
Maybe a different team provides updates, I don't know...
For information, SCID Vs PC compiles perfectly :
Unzip this file :
https://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?group_id=263836&filename=scid_vs_pc-4.7.tgz
sudo apt-get install wget g++ make tcl8.5 tcl8.5-dev tk8.5 tk8.5-dev libsnack2 libtk-img checkinstall
./configure
make
sudo checkinstall
To run scidVsPc : open a terminal and run "scid".
LM - we had the same idea! After qixel's notes I decided to give scidvspc a go and it installed with no problem.
First impressions are that it's pretty much scid without the docking capabilities, but I'll keep playing with it...
No idea if this is still of interest to anyone... If you don't want the plain old scid (via 'sudo apt-get install scid') but the newer and better Scid vs PC, you might want to have a look at this guide. I tried it, and it worked perfectly with Linux Mint 16. I only had to add a 'sudo apt-get install g++' before running the 'configure' thingy.
Hi,
I'm trying to install SCID onto my laptop running the above Linux flavour.
To install the latest version I downloaded 4.3 from sourceforge (as the package manager that comes with Linux only has a really old version of Scid), and when I try ./configure Scid into my SCID directory I get the following error:
configure: Makefile configuration program for Scid
Renaming "Makefile" to "Makefile.bak"
Tcl/Tk version: 8.5
Your operating system is: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic
Location of "tcl.h": /usr/include/tcl8.5
Location of "tk.h": /usr/include/tcl8.5
Location of Tcl 8.5 library: /usr/lib
Location of Tk 8.5 library: /usr/lib
Location of X11 library: not found
Checking if your system already has zlib installed: yes.
Using Makefile.conf.
Not all settings could be determined!
The default Makefile was written.
You will need to edit it before you can compile Scid.
I've found a fix here for Ubuntu 11.04, but this work around has been added to the config file already, so I'm wondering if anyone here has had any success getting it up and running on the latest version of Mint Cinnamon? I'm a bit of a noob with Linux, but I have tried to find the libx11 stuff, without much success, so any pointers would be very welcome!
Thanks in advance.