Other installation tips

Prime is a predictive text input method effectively used in Emacs.

相撲外：Installing Prime on the Universal

To install it, follow these steps, based on the Prime installation guide, originally found here.

• Install Ruby.
• Install sary.

  Download the sary package from the sary website.

  $ wget -c http://sary.sourceforge.net/sary-1.2.0.tar.gz

  Unpack.

  $ tar xzvf sary-1.2.0.tar.gz

  Install.

  $ cd sary-1.2.0 $ ./configure $ make $ make install

• Install sary-ruby bindings.

  Deprecated: If under cygwin, sary-ruby installs fine now, it used to not, so you had to follow this guide (not necessary now): If installing under cygwing, follow this guide to deal with errors, caused by cygwin compilation, otherwise:

  Download the sary-ruby package from sary-ruby homepage.

  $ wget -c http://sary.sourceforge.net/sary-ruby-1.2.0.tar.gz

  Unpack.

  $ tar xzvf sary-ruby-1.2.0.tar.gz

  Compile.

  $ cd sary-ruby-1.2.0 $ ruby extconf.rb $ make $ make install

• Install suikyo.

  Download the suikyou package from the suikyo repository.

  $ wget -c http://prime.sourceforge.jp/src/suikyo-2.1.0.tar.gz

  Unpack.

  $ tar xzvf suikyo-2.1.0.tar.gz

  Install.

  $ cd suikyo-2.1.0 $ ./configure $ make $ make install

• Install ruby-progressbar.

  Download the ruby-progressbar package from the ruby-progressbar webpage

  $ wget -c http://0xcc.net/ruby-progressbar/ruby-progressbar-0.9.tar.gz

  Unpack.

  $ tar xzvf ruby-progressbar-0.9.tar.gz

  Copy progressbar.rb to Ruby's path, where other .rb files reside.

• Install prime server.

  Download the prime server package from the Prime distribution site.

  $ wget -c http://prime.sourceforge.jp/src/prime-1.0.0.1.tar.gz

  Unpack.

  $ tar xzvf prime-1.0.0.1.tar.gz

  Install.

  $ cd prime-1.0.0.1 $ ./configure $ make $ make install $ make install-etc

• Install prime dictionary.

  Download the prime-dict package from the Prime distribution site.

  $ wget -c http://prime.sourceforge.jp/src/prime-dict-1.0.0.tar.gz

  Unpack.

  $ tar xzvf prime-dict-1.0.0.tar.gz

  Install.

  $ cd prime-dict-1.0.0 $ ./configure $ make $ make install

This finishes the server installation. Now the emacs frontend must be installed. To install it, follow these steps, based on the Prime emacs frontend installation guide, originally found here.

• Install APEL.

  Download the APEL package from the APEL distribution site.

  $ wget -c http://kanji.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~tomo/lemi/dist/apel/apel-10.7.tar.gz

  Unpack.

  $ tar xzvf apel-10.7.tar.gz

  Install.

  $ cd apel-10.7 $ make $ make install

• Install MELL.

  Download the MELL package from the MELL distribution site.

  $ wget -c http://taiyaki.org/elisp/mell/src/mell-1.0.0.tar.gz

  Unpack.

  $ tar xzvf mell-1.0.0.tar.gz

  Install.

  $ cd mell-1.0.0 $./configure $ make $ make install

• Install prime-el.

  Download the prime-el package from the prime-el distribution site.

  $ wget -c http://prime.sourceforge.jp/src/prime-el-1.5.1.3.tar.gz

  Unpack.

  $ tar xzvf prime-el-1.5.1.3.tar.gz

  Install.

  $ cd prime-el-1.5.1.3 $./configure $ make $ make install $ make install-etc

Now, to finish the installation, modify you .emacs file, according to MELL installation guide, originally found here and the Prime emacs frontend installation guide, originally found here.

Add the following lines to your .emacs file:

;;; MELL (Emacs Lisp ライブラリ) (require 'init-mell) ;;; Suikyo (ローマ字ひらがな変換ライブラリ) (require 'init-suikyo) ;;; PRIME for Emacs (require 'init-prime) (setq prime-toggle-key "C-xC-j") (global-set-key prime-toggle-key 'japanese-prime)

Now restart emacs. After this, when you hit C-x C-j prime input will start and you can type predictivelly.

However, under cygwin, Prime still doesn't run.

For some reason emacs get stuck in busy mode, displaying the clock, after displaying the message:

Loading /home/shiroikuma/.prime/Custom_prime-el.el (source)...done