Installing N|vu on Linux-Debian(Sid)
Nvu is now available as an official package from Debian official apt repositories. You can install it by using either dselect or apt-get. Debian official packages are made available a few days after a new Nvu official release. If you can't wait till a new version is made available by the Debian maintainers, follow the manual procedure of installing from the compressed archive.
This is how I installed N|vu, the Mozilla based standalone composer, on my Linux box (Debian Sid). The instructions should work on other similar Linux systems without big changes.
- Download the nvu-x.xx-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz (or the latest release) from the downloads section of Nvu website. (where x.xx is version number e.g. 0.50, etc)
- Untar it in /usr/local/ (as root) with the command tar -zxfv nvu-x.xx-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz or tar -jxfv nvu-x.xx-pc-linux-gnu.tar.bz2
- Do chown -vR root:staff nvu-x.xx/ to change the group from root to staff recursively( -R option) and print the changes verbosly(-v option).
- Make a symbolic link in /usr/local/bin for nvu as ln -s /usr/local/nvu-x.xx/nvu nvu
- Do chown root:staff /usr/local/bin/nvu
You can start Nvu by giving the command:
$ /usr/local/bin/nvu&
Nvu Documentation
- Nvu: An Introduction
- Nvu Guide by Charles Cooke
- Using CaScadeS , Nvu's built-in CSS Editor
- Nvu Tutorial - Avilable as an extension for Nvu.
- Nvu Help -- Nvu Help Project on mozdev.org
Info Nvu
- Nvu's Development Blog
- Daniel Glazman's(Lead developer) weblog on Nvu's developement.
- Nvu Forum
- Discussion forum for your queries/suggestions about Nvu.
- CaScadeS
- Information on how to use Nvu's inbuilt style sheet editor.
- New Features
- New features coming in next release i.e. Nvu 0.40
- Download
- Download Nvu from official web site.
- Unofficial mirror and Contrib Builds
- Unofficial builds contributed by Nviewers.
- Nvu on Gentoo?
- The Gentoo community has made some hacks with the startup script to be able to run it on Gentoo Linux. I haven't tried it yet but if you can't run it by untarring the tarball, take a look at the discussion on Gentoo Forums.
- Gentoo ebuild(unofficial)
- And someone has made an ebuild for Nvu too. The ebuild is available from here. And you might be interested in reading this discussion for installing the ebuild.
- Nvu on Ubuntu Linux
- Using Ubutu Linux and want to try your hand at web desing using Nvu? Ubuntu Linux has made a HOW-TO for installing Nvu on Ubuntu Linux. The instructions are here.
Suggestions to make Nvu better
- Syntax highlighting. The support of syntax highlighting is still missing in Nvu even though it is there in Firefox html source viewer. Hope it is implemented soon. lw Update: Its been implemented and will be available in next release.
- A nice context menu for the tabs. Having a context menu with usual choices like "Close Tab"(is there in 0.41), "Close Other Tabs"(is there in 0.41), "Open New Tab", "Refresh Tab"(load last saved copy) would be really helpful for users. L Update: Partially implemented in 0.41
- Extension support. It "seems" like extension support has not been enabled for Nvu yet. Having it enabled will definitely speed up the development process. It is there in Nvu0.70 built using Firefox1.0.
- Leave script code alone! This would be a very very nice feature to be implemented in Nvu. Majority of web developers use one form of scripting or other in their web pages. Nvu does not respect scripts in all places and tried to make it Standard HTML, in turn scripts don't work all the time for Nvu generated pages.
- Comments in style sheets. CaScades, Nvu's CSS editor, needs the ability to write comments in the style sheet. Comments really help to identify different sections in a long style sheet. They also help in understanding the styling by people other than the author.
- Markup Cleaner. Markup cleaner's "Clean Up" button should change to "OK" after cleaning operation is performed.