FACELIFT Installation


Obtaining FACELIFT

The program is distributed as source code in the form of a tar file for Unix/Linux platforms.
You can obtain the tar file (~800K) via anonymous ftp.
Compressed (~240K) and gzipped (~125K) tar files are also available.

Installing FACELIFT

  1. Copy the file faceliftsrc.tar into an empty directory, for example /usr/local/src/facelift
  2. Untar the file with the command tar -xvf facelift.tar
  3. Edit the Makefile and (un)comment the lines for your operating system.
  4. Compile the source code by typing make all
  5. Generate with your editor a file /usr/local/bin/facelift (or somewhere else in your searchpath). This file should contain two lines:
    #!/bin/sh
    exec /usr/local/src/facelift/facelift "$@"
  6. Make this file executable: chmod ugo+x /usr/local/bin/facelift
  7. You should now be able to use the "command-line" version of facelift.

Installing FACELIFTGUI

The command-line version of FACELIFT can also be run via a Graphical User Interface, which makes use of the Tcl/Tk library. Please make then sure, that a recent version of this library is installed on your system (the program was tested with version 8.3).
  1. Copy the file facelift.tcl into a directory, for example /usr/local/src/facelift
  2. Generate with your editor a file /usr/local/bin/faceliftgui. (or somewhere else in your searchpath). This file should contain two lines:
    #!/bin/sh
    exec /usr/local/src/facelift/facelift.tcl "$*"
  3. Make this file executable: chmod ugo+x /usr/local/bin/faceliftgui
  4. You should now be able to use the "GUI" version of facelift. Note: not all commands of the "command-line" version are available in the GUI. But the most important commands should be there.

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