I) MONO 2.4+ (Runtime plus the library ) Installation of MarcEdit on Windows from the Zip file will remove the ability to utilize MarcEdit’s scripting capabilities - but otherwise, the program will function normally.Ĭ) Navigate to the MarcEdit program directory, and run bootloader.exeĬONGRATULATIONS, MarcEdit should now be ready to run on your PC.Ī) Ensure that the dependencies have been installed įor those users wanting to utilize MarcEdit but cannot run the installer due to permissions restrictions, MarcEdit can be installed from the Zip file. MarcEdit’s supported Windows installation program can be found at. Below, I’ll recreate the install instructions for those interested - otherwise, you can find these in the Zip archive. I’m hoping to hear back from users - if you have trouble, find steps missing, etc., I would love to hear from you. The MarcEdit install instructions have been kept fairly simple…Maybe too simple. As always, MarcEdit can be downloaded from: or directly, from: This file provides install information for Windows users that don’t want to use the MSI installer, as well as Linux users that want to run MarcEdit. Within the Zip file, you will find and Install.txt file. I’ll keep watching, testing, and maybe even simplifying the MarcEdit UI to mitigate some of these problems - but that’s where we stand right now.įor MarcEdit users, the Linux/Other distribution package will be provided as a simple zip file. As the Mono runtime moves to 3.0, maybe some of these issues will disappear. While you can certainly run MarcEdit on a Mac (especially the command line version of MarcEdit, you will find that there are severe UI issues when running the MarcEdit GUI. So, while I hope to extend support to the Mac platform at some point, I am not there yet. I had hoped, some time ago, that Mac switching to a Unix infrastructure would help with compatibility - but the UI used on the Mac has actually made that process much more difficult in many ways (at least, that’s been the case for projects I’ve been associated with). Now, to the next question…what about Mac? Well, what about the Mac? Long-term, I hope to eventually have Mac support as well, but in many respects, when Mac support happens will be dependent on the Mono Runtime, and the Mono project finding Mac developers interested in doing that work. So, going forward, I will ensure that I test MarcEdit on both the Windows and Linux platforms (specifically, Ubuntu). As of today, the branches have been merged and there is now a single codebase for MarcEdit. The Windows version is being updated to complete the reconciliation process. To that end, I’m providing an update for all versions of MarcEdit. So, it is with some trepidation, that I can finally provide an official download, complete with Install instructions and support, for the Linux platform. It’s taken some time, but I finally finished the process last night. So, since November, I’ve been reconciling the two versions - making tweaks to the Windows code to make it more Linux friendly, and working with the Linux code to make it less Linux specific. In November, I’d created a version of MarcEdit that worked great under Linux, but was pretty different in some significant ways (code-wise) from the Windows version, and that simply wouldn’t do. I’d honestly hoped to have this work finished back in November, but it never happened, well, it did happen, but then I ran into a new problem - a forked version of MarcEdit. Over the past few months, I’ve been working on trying to smooth out the wrinkles in the Linux version - as well as work around a few known issues in the Mono runtime. This was actually one of the big reasons behind the change in program languages from a mix of Assembly/Delphi to C#, as well as my interest and periodic activity with the Mono project. For some time, I’ve been working on a development branch of MarcEdit to provide better (i.e., official) support for the application on Linux.
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