Installation

Download

You can download AnyMeal from the files-page on sourceforge.net.

Note that AnyMeal is a software for GNU/Linux and currently other platforms (Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, ...) are not supported.

You can obtain GNU/Linux for free. You can for example install Kubuntu. There are more distributions such as Debian and Redhat, and Fedora Core to name only a few. You can have a look at the Wikipedia comparison of Linux distributions for more. Make sure that you choose a distribution which comes with the KDE-desktop, the GNU C++ compiler, and other packages (see section about depending packages).

Installation of AnyMeal

Installation with APT

Thanks to Sandro Tosi there also is a Debian package of AnyMeal-0.29.

Compile from source

Install or compile depending packages

First you need to install the software-packages, which AnyMeal is depending on:

KDE-3.2 (I'm not sure, wether it works with earlier versions)
Norman Walsh's docbook-scripts version 1.64 or later.
MySQL version 4.0 or 4.1 (No tests have been done with later versions of MySQL).
boost-library.
Xerces-C 2.6 or later and
corresponding version of Xalan-C (1.9 or later).

The required versions of Xerces-C and Xalan-C are very recent ones!

It's always the best option to install this packages from the same DVD/CD-distribution, which you used for installing your GNU/Linux-system. If you are installing from Internet, you may find compiled packages using an rpm/deb-search-engine like rpm.pbone.net or www.rpmseek.com.

See freshmeat-page for an extensive list of dependencies.

Compile AnyMeal

Download a source-archive. The file name may f.e. be anymeal-0.24.tar.bz2. Unpack the sources and enter the main-directory:

    tar xjf anymeal-*.tar.bz2
    cd anymeal-*

Now start the configure-script:

    ./configure

Compile the program.

    make

    su -c "make install"

Please have a look at the Frequently asked questions before compiling the program.

Configuration

MySQL server

Starting with AnyMeal-0.28 you now have the choice between using an Embedded MySQL server (does not work on recent versions of Ubuntu!) or using a system-wide MySQL server which you may have to set up yourself (Ubuntu automatically sets up the MySQL server for you).

If you need to set up MySQL yourself, you can find a section on setting up MySQL on the FAQ-page.

Configure AnyMeal

When you are using AnyMeal the first time, you'll need to create a recipe database. AnyMeal is providing a wizard for this. Just select File->Connect from the menu.

AnyMeal first will connect to kwallet to safely store and retrieve user-passwords.

Then a dialog for connecting to the MySQL server will come up. Click New to open the wizard for creating a new database. You have the choice between Embedded and Network. The Embedded configuration will try to run a MySQL server as a user process and connect to it by using a socket. The Network configuration will try to connect to an existing MySQL server using a network protocol. Typically you will connect to a MySQL server running on the same machine (i.e. "localhost"). I hope the wizard is self-explanatory. Let me know if there are any problems.

Have a look at the Shockwave tutorials to see some demonstrations on how to configure and use AnyMeal.

anymeal 0.30 - recipe management software