System Requirements

This document lists the system requirements for running Eagle Mode. Please read carefully.

CPU: 2 GHz, 1 MB cache.

Memory: 1 GB RAM and 1 GB swap space (or more RAM). This is a recommendation. If you run Eagle Mode with less memory, then your first job after starting should be to navigate to the Preferences (somewhere in the upper left area of the control view) and lessen the value for Max Megabytes Per View.

Disk: About 30 MB disk space for installation, 1 GB for temporary files at run-time. The disk should be quite fast and without frequent sleep states (notebook hard disks are not so suitable).

Operating system: An up-to-date Linux is recommended. Other UNIX-like systems may also be suitable (tested were FreeBSD, OpenSolaris, Cygwin and Mac OS X 10.5). Eagle Mode also runs on Windows ≥ 2000-SP2, but several features are not ported (UTF-8 encoding, time zones, audio/video player, postscript viewer, PDF viewer, SVG viewer, viewers that perform temporary conversion).

Graphics: An accelerated graphics driver. On UNIX-like systems it should be an accelerated X-Server with a fast XShm extension. 3D acceleration is not needed. It is not recommended to use something like a 3D desktop or composite manager, because that could slow down Eagle Mode a lot.

Mouse: With three buttons (not emulated) and with a smooth-running wheel.

Programs & Libraries:

Program/Lib Debian Package Name Required?

perl (Perl ≥ 5.8) perl By all means (but on Windows only for compilation)

gcc (GCC ≥ 3.3) g++ Only for compilation. If you want to use another compiler, then please read the Compilers section at the end of MakeSystem.html, and make use of the option compiler=name when building.

X11R6 library libx11-dev By all means (not on Windows)

xterm xterm Highly recommended (not on Windows)

gs (Ghostscript ≥ 8.x) ghostscript Highly recommended (not on Windows)

JPEG library libjpeg62-dev Only for viewing jpeg files

PNG library libpng12-dev Only for viewing png files

TIFF library libtiff4-dev Only for viewing tiff files

xine library libxine-dev Only for playing audio and video files (not on Windows)

RSVG library 2.x librsvg2-dev Only for viewing svg files (not on Windows)

Poppler-glib library libpoppler-glib-dev Only for viewing pdf files (not on Windows)

freetype library 2.x libfreetype6-dev Only for extending the character set with font2em (not on Windows)

7z p7zip-full Only for working with 7z files

ar binutils Only for working with ar files (not on Windows)

arc arc Only for working with arc files

arj arj Only for working with arj files

bzip2 bzip2 Only for working with bz and bz2 files

gzip gzip Only for working with gz files

lha lha Only for working with lha files

lzop lzop Only for working with lzo files (not on Windows)

tar tar Only for working with tar files

unrar unrar Only for working with rar files (not on Windows)

xz xz-utils Only for working with lzma and xz files

zip & unzip zip & unzip Only for working with zip files

zoo zoo Only for working with zoo files (not on Windows)

abiword abiword Only for viewing files of type abw, doc, odt, rtf and some more (not on Windows)

dia dia Only for viewing dia files (not on Windows)

dvips texlive-binaries Only for viewing dvi files (not on Windows)

fig2dev transfig Only for viewing fig files (not on Windows)

g3topbm netpbm Only for viewing g3 files (not on Windows)

htmldoc htmldoc Only for viewing html files (not on Windows)

isoinfo genisoimage Only for viewing infos from iso files (not on Windows)

povray povray Only for viewing pov files (not on Windows)

rpm rpm Only for viewing infos from rpm files (not on Windows)

skconvert skencil Only for viewing cgm, sk and wmf files (not on Windows)

xwdtopnm netpbm Only for viewing xwd files (not on Windows)

Do not have the wrong program to a name

Eagle Mode runs many standard programs by names like they have on Debian GNU/Linux 6.0. Your system must not have another program with one of those names, otherwise unforeseeable things could happen. For example, Eagle Mode runs "gs" when it means Ghostscript, and therefore you should not have another program named "gs" which, for example, formats the hard disk. In detail, Eagle Mode runs standard UNIX shell commands like "cp", "mv", "rm", "grep" and so on, and it runs the programs listed in the table above. Many of these are run when you just navigate around in Eagle Mode, without asking you. In addition, many further programs (not listed above) are run by triggering the file manager commands. If you are unsure about the later, please study the file manager command scripts (see emFileMan Customization for a description of the scripts).

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