Topic: About Calcpad

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Installation


Windows

Installation is performed by the automated setup program calcpad-setup-en-x64.exe. Follow the instruction of the setup wizard. The software requires a 64-bit computer with Windows 10/11 and Microsoft .NET Desktop Runtime 10.0.

Linux

  1. Calcpad is a .NET application, so you need .NET 10.0 to run it on Linux. Use the following commands to install .NET 10.0 runtime:
sudo apt update
sudo apt-get install -y dotnet-runtime-10.0

If you need to uninstall older dotnet versions, run this command before the above ones:

sudo apt remove dotnet*
  1. If you do not have Chromium installed, you will need it to download Calcpad and view the reports after calculation. Install it with the following command:
sudo snap install chromium
  1. Download the Calcpad setup package from the following link: https://calcpad.eu/download/linux/Calcpad.7.5.5.deb

Then, install Calcpad, using the following command:

sudo apt-get install -y <path-to-your-downloads-folder>/Calcpad.7.5.5.deb

Instead of <path-to-your-downloads-folder> you must put the actual path, something like this:

sudo apt-get install -y /home/ned/snap/chromium/3235/Downloads/Calcpad.7.5.5.deb

If you get a message like the one bellow, please ignore it: N: Download is performed unsandboxed as root as file '.../Calcpad.7.5.5.deb' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)

And that's it. You can start the Calcpad command line interpreter (CLI) by simply typing:

calcpad

You can use it to perform calculations in console mode:

Cli

The Linux version does not include any GUI yet, but you can use some advanced code editors like Notepad++ and Sublime to write Calcpad code and Chromium to view the results. Instructions how to install Sublime Text on Linux are provided here: https://www.sublimetext.com/docs/linux_repositories.html

For Ubuntu, you can use the following commands:

wget -qO - https://download.sublimetext.com/sublimehq-pub.gpg | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/sublimehq-archive.gpg > /dev/null
sudo apt-get update
echo "deb https://download.sublimetext.com/ apt/stable/" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sublime-text.list
sudo apt-get install sublime-text

Then, goto https://github.com/Proektsoftbg/Calcpad/tree/main/Setup/Linux/Sublime and download the following files:

calcpad.sublime-build
calcpad.sublime-completions
calcpad.sublime-syntax
Monokai.sublime-color-scheme

Copy them to the Sublime Text user package folder: /home/<user>/.config/sublime-text/Packages/User

Here, <user> must be your actual user name. Finally, you can open Sublime Text and Chromium with the following commands:

subl &
chromium &

Put them side to side. Start a new *.cpd file in Sublime Text or open an example from the /home/<user>/Calcpad folder. Press Ctrl+B to calculate. If everything is OK, the results will show in Chromium:

Sublime+Chromium

Finally, if you want to uninstall Calcpad, type the following:

sudo apt-get --purge remove calcpad

Acknowledgments

This project uses some additional third party components, software and design. They are re-distributed free of charge, under the license conditions, provided by the respective authors.

1. The new and beautiful icons are created using icons8.com.

2. The pdf export was made possible thanks to the wkhtmltopdf.org project.

3. Some symbols are displayed, using the Jost* font family by indestructible type*, under the SIL open font license. Square brackets are slightly modified to suit the application needs.


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