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This page has an online version which may contain updated information:
  1. Using Endeavour Mark II Applications & Utils - How to set up and use Endeavour Mark II applications and utilities
  2. Uninstall - How to uninstall Endeavour Mark II
  3. Other Languages - How to compile Endeavour Mark II for other (non-English) languages
  4. Command Line Recycle - How to set up recycling (and recovering and purging) objects from the command line

See also; FAQ


Using Endeavour Mark II Applications & Utils

Endeavour Mark II comes with a set of applications and utilities located in

Note that third party applications and utilities written for Endeavour Mark II may also be installed in the same above location.

Some of these programs are graphical (uses GTK) and other are simple command line programs. You can run each of them from a terminal to see what it does (none of the programs do anything destructive or dangerous when runned without arguments so it is safe to test them that way).

For the graphical applications you can create a short cut to run the application. For example to create a short cut to hedit (HEdit, the Endeavour Mark II Hex Editor) you can use the following information when creating the short cut:

For command line programs you have several options, the recommented method is to create a link in:

(since that location is usually covered by the PATH environment variable) That points to the command line program in:

For example, to run be able to run download.front (the Endeavour Mark II Download front end) from the command line you need to create a link:

So from now on you can download something from a terminal's command line by typing:

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Uninstall

To uninstall Endeavour Mark II globally, delete:

To uninstall Endeavour Mark II locally, delete:

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Other Languages

To compile Endeavour Mark II in another (non-English) language:

  1. Obtain the Endeavour Mark II source (if you no longer have it around).
  2. Edit the file:
    • $TOPLEVEL/endeavour2/config.h
  3. Uncomment one (and only one) of the definations (the #defines) of PROG_LANGUAGE_* (near the beginning of the file) to correspond to the language that you want to compile for, example:
    • #define PROG_LANGUAGE_FRENCH 3
  4. Save the file and exit.

Now follow the instructions in the INSTALL file and compile the program as you normally would.

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Command Line Recycle

To set up recycling, recovering, and purging objects from the command line:

  1. Obtain the Endeavour Mark II source (if you no longer have it around).
  2. Go to the Endeavour Mark II source directory:
    • $TOPLEVEL/endeavour2/lib/demos
  3. Compile the demos, run:
    • make clean
    • make all
  4. Type su to gain root priviledges and run:
    • make install
    to install the demos in:
    • /usr/lib/endeavour/bin
  5. Type su to gain root priviledges and create the links:
    • /usr/bin/recycle -> /usr/lib/endeavour/bin/recycle
    • /usr/bin/purge -> /usr/lib/endeavour/bin/purge
    • /usr/bin/recover -> /usr/lib/endeavour/bin/recover
    • /usr/bin/rls -> /usr/lib/endeavour/bin/rls

Now you can recycle objects from the command line by typing:

In addition you can purge, recover, and list recycled objects with the following commands:

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