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2009-01-07
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i've installed graphviz from the deb flle on my n800, but how do i run the app, as i see no icon in any off thee menu folders?
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Hello gerrymoth!
Well, as stated above, this is a 'CLI' (command line interface) software package, not a 'GUI' (graphic user interface) one. The only 'GUI' apps that normally would have been included (the 'lefty' program) are X-based, and do not work on Maemo. In order to use this, you will have to run commands on the command line -- to generate 'PNG' or 'GIF' images containing graphs. The 'Graphviz' website tells this much better than I can
Well, as stated above, this is a 'CLI' (command line interface) software package, not a 'GUI' (graphic user interface) one. The only 'GUI' apps that normally would have been included (the 'lefty' program) are X-based, and do not work on Maemo. In order to use this, you will have to run commands on the command line -- to generate 'PNG' or 'GIF' images containing graphs. The 'Graphviz' website tells this much better than I can
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I am going to look very foolish if someone has already created a port of 'Graphviz', or if I have done something wrong and it doesn't work properly for your uses, but since I needed it for my own reasons, I decided to package it and let others know about it. As always, my 'Maemo' stuff can be found here:
http://darethehair.googlepages.com/software.html
(link is at the bottom of the page)
Since this is a CLI utility, there are no 'screen shots' to show you. You can visit the graphviz page for lots of info (http://www.graphviz.org/) or for some examples of generated graphs (http://www.graphviz.org/Gallery.php).
I think of graphviz as a 'graph generator', but the web page describes it as 'graph visualization software'.
For the few simple graphs that I have generated using the 'dot' language (the only part of graphviz that I use myself), this port seems to work OK. However, when I tried to generate a large 'PNG' graph image from a large 'dot' file, it crashed my N800.
Beware! I assume no responsibility for the problems you may run into! Let me know if anyone out there actually even cares about running this on their tablets!
P.S. When I installed the 'deb' onto my tablet, the application manager said it would take 15mb (!!) of space, but it seems to me that it was less than 3mb -- so I was confused, to say the least!
P.P.S. There is an interesting Python-based GUI app that takes advantage of graphviz, which works fine on my N800 -- anyone interested?
There is nothing more dangerous than a bored cat.