Meld : Install

Meld is extremely easy to install - just untar and run. You can simply make a symlink to the untarred executable. (Optionally "make" to generate translations)

If you find or create packages for meld, please mail me so that I can add a link on this page.

Debian Linux

Ross Burton has kindly generated a meld debian package : apt-get install meld

Freebsd

The ports collection now has a meld port

Redhat Linux

Dag Wieers has provided meld RPM packages. Or use his Apt repository

Gentoo Linux

Gentoo has included a meld ebuild.

Fedora Linux

Philip Compton has packages available for meld on Fedora Core.

Solaris

Cedric Briner has packaged meld for Solaris.

Mac OS X

Daniel E. Macks has made a meld fink package.

Pkgsrc

There is now a meld pkgsrc package.

Slackware

Everson Santos Araujo has made a meld slackware package.

Mandriva

Mandriva ships with a meld package by Gätz Waschk.

Generic Install

Install the gnome-python modules

If your platform does not supply the gnome-python packages, you can install them from source. It is assumed that you have gnome2 and python2.2 development packages installed.

Download and install pyorbit pygtk gnome-python from your favourite gnome mirror.

You will need to both build and install them to the same $prefix and in that order. This is a gnome-python limitation.

Be careful to watch for messages like 'libfoo-2.0.pc not found' when running configure - you may need to install extra gnome development packages to correctly build.

Install intltool (optional)

Meld uses intltool to generate translations. You can skip this step if you always want to run meld in english.

Install meld

Untar meld.tgz, run "make" to build the translations (optional) and run "./meld"

Other

BSD, AIX users did you have to do anything special?