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catdoc - DOC (Word), PPT (Powerpoint), and XLS (Excel) converters ChangeLog

Web site:

http://www.wagner.pp.ru/~vitus/software/catdoc/

HOWTO

# catdoc 0.94.2
# =============
# Prerequisites:
# Tcl/Tk (optional - for wordview Tcl/Tk viewer)
# groff

# Get it
cd
test -f installed/catdoc-0.94.2.tar.gz &&
mv installed/catdoc-0.94.2.tar.gz .
test ! -f catdoc-0.94.2.tar.gz &&
wget http://ftp.wagner.pp.ru/pub/catdoc/catdoc-0.94.2.tar.gz

# Verify tarball w/ md5sum:
# (this came from my sha1sum-verified tarball)
echo "243e1680bb3e703616f5adecfee24491 catdoc-0.94.2.tar.gz" | md5sum -c

# Verify tarball w/ sha1sum:
echo "50ce9d7cb24ad6b10a856c9c24183e2b0a11ca04 catdoc-0.94.2.tar.gz" | \
sha1sum -c

# Extract the source
mkdir -p -m 0700 src
cd src
find -maxdepth 1 -type d -name "catdoc-*" -exec rm -r {} \;
tar xzvf ~/catdoc-0.94.2.tar.gz
cd catdoc-0.94.2
test $UID = 0 && chown -R root:root .

# Configure the build
./configure

# Build it
make

# Install it
su -c "make install"

# Save the source for later
cd
mkdir -p -m 0700 installed
rm -f installed/catdoc-*.tar.*
mv catdoc-0.94.2.tar.gz installed/

# Read 'man catdoc', 'man catppt', 'man wordview', 'man xls2csv' for
# usage information.

# If you ever want to uninstall catdoc, this should do it:
cd
su
( cd /usr/local/bin ; rm -f catdoc catppt wordview xls2csv )
( cd /usr/local/man/man1 ; rm -f catdoc.1 catppt.1 wordview.1 xls2csv.1 )
test -d /usr/local/share/catdoc &&
rm -r /usr/local/share/catdoc
exit
find ~/src -maxdepth 1 -type d -name "catdoc-*" -exec rm -r {} \;
rm -f ~/installed/catdoc-*.tar.*