Kompozer Install
-Obtain-

For: Mepis Linux

by: je.saist

Daniel Glazman's NVU program is probably the most well known What you see is what you get HTML editor on the Linux platform. Originally aimed to be an Open Source Replacement for Macromedia Dreamweaver, NVU was built on the Gecko code base from Mozilla Suite. Glazman abandoned the old Gecko code base and is busy building a new HTML editor on a xulrunner-base, as mentioned in his blog. However, with the next Generation of Mozilla Composer not released yet, NVU users were left in the cold without update support.

Fabien Cazenave stepped in and forked the NVU code into the Kompozer project. However, this really isn't a fork as Kompozer is now the only direct upgrade path for NVU users. Now, because I liked using NVU, I of course upgraded to Kompozer. The bad news is, Kompozer is not in the Apt-Repositories. All We have is a tar ball.  Don't Panic! We'll walk you through all the steps.

This guide is seperated into 3 sections. Obtaining the Kompozer Appliction, Extracting the Files, and Running Kompozer.


1: The first step is obtaining the Kompozer Program.

Open Firefox. It should be on your taskbar as the world shaped icon.





2: Wait for FireFox to load, then Clear the Address Bar.





3: In the address bar we want to type in the address : http://www.kompozer.net/

(or just follow the link)





4: Straight barebones page. Makes this simpler than say, finding stuff HP's site.

Over on the Right Hand side of the page we have our Download Links.





5: Left Click on Linux 2.6.15 tarball

(note, the tarball version could change at any time, fair warning)





6: Clicking on the Linux Tarball link should take us to Sourceforge

*note* There is a divergence here. I just did this section again and clicking through Kompozer's page to Sourceforge resulted in SourceForge chosing a Download mirror for me and starting the download. If SourceForge does this for you, you'll get a page like this one:



If you get that, proceed to step 8. If you don't, just follow the following picture and step 7.





7: SourceForge has multiple mirrors around the world, so find one close to you, and then Left Click on download.





8: It may take a few moments, but eventually FireFox should pop up the Save Window.





9: We want to Left Click on the option to Save to Disk





10: By default FireFox is still saving to my desktop.





11: Now we just wait for the download to complete. We can go ahead and close FireFox at this point.




Alright, time for Part 2 and Extraction

I already know how to extract a file, is Part 3 where we run Kompozer?