OmegaT_1.7.3_Without_JRE.zip
OmegaT_1.7.3_Linux.tar.gz
To install OmegaT, simply unpack/untar the downloaded file. This will create an omegat/ directory in the working directory in which you will find all the files necessary to run OmegaT.
To untar the .tar.gz
file:
$ tar xf downloaded_file.tar.gz
You can add OmegaT to your menus as follows:
Control Center - Desktop - Panels - Menus - Edit K Menu - File - New Item/New Submenu
File - New Submenu and File - New Item
. Enter OmegaT as the name of the new item.File - Save
.You can add OmegaT to your panel (the bar at the top of the screen) as follows:
Add New Launcher
.Once OmegaT is installed, you can launch it directly from the command line, you can create a script that includes launch parameters for the command line or you can click on OmegaT.jar
to launch it directly. Methods differ depending on the distribution. Make sure that your PATH
settings are correct and that .jar
files are properly associated with a Java launcher.
OmegaT_1.7.3_Without_JRE.zip
OmegaT_1.7.3_Windows.zip
To install OmegaT, create a suitable folder, in which to copy the downloaded file (e.g. C:\Program Files\OmegaT
). Double click on it to unpack it. You will you will find all the files necessary to run OmegaT unpacked in that folder. You may then delete the remaining downloaded file.
You can drag the files OmegaT-JRE.exe
, OmegaT.exe
or OmegaT.bat
to the desktop or Start menu to link them from there.
Once OmegaT is installed, you can click on OmegaT.jar
to launch it directly, you can click on the OmegaT.bat
file to include launch parameters for the command line or you can launch it directly from the command line.
Download OmegaT_1.7.3_MacOSX.zip
.
Double click on OmegaT_1.7.3_MacOSX.zip
to unpack it. An OSX disk image (OmegaT.dmg
) will mount itself and will display 2 files: documentation.html
and OmegaT.app
. Copy the two files to a suitable folder (e.g. Applications, in which you can create an OmegaT folder). Once you have done this, you can delete the OmegaT_1.7.3_MacOSX.zip
file.
You can add OmegaT to the Dock by dragging the file OmegaT.app
and dropping it on the Dock.
Double-click on OmegaT.app
or click on its location in the Dock
If you want to change the Java launch parameters from the command line, you are advised to use the package available for "Other systems", see below. It is also possible to directly modify the Info.plist
file located inside the OmegaT.app
package.
OmegaT is available bundled with a SUN Java JRE for Linux (Intel x86) and Windows platforms. Users of other platforms (Linux PowerPC, Linux x64, Solaris SPARC/x86/x64, Windows x64 etc) must have a running compatible Java JRE on their system to be able to use OmegaT.
Do you have a Java implementation compatible with SUN's Java 1.4 JRE?OmegaT_1.7.3_Without_JRE.zip
OmegaT_1.7.3_Without_JRE.zip
.
SUN provides JREs for Solaris SPARC/x86 (Java 1.4) and for Linux x64, Solaris x64, Windows x64 (Java 1.5):
http://java.sun.com/products/archive/
IBM provides JREs for Linux PowerPC:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/linux/download.html
Follow the installation instructions of the package you need.
To install OmegaT, simply unpack the OmegaT_1.7.3_Without_JRE.zip
file. This creates an ./OmegaT_1.7.3_Without_JRE/
directory in the working directory in which you will find all the files necessary to run OmegaT.
Follow your system's instructions to install OmegaT shortcuts in convenient places.
Once OmegaT is installed, you can launch it directly from the command line, you can create a script that includes launch parameters for the command line or you can click on OmegaT.jar
to launch it directly. Methods differ depending on the distribution. Make sure that your PATH
settings are correct and that .jar
files are properly associated with a Java launcher.
Normally, it is not necessary to launch OmegaT from the command line. However, the command-line method of launching OmegaT enables aspects of the program's behaviour to be controlled by means of modifications. There are two ways of launching OmegaT using the command line.
Users of the Mac OSX package who want to control OmegaT from the command line are advised to use the package available for "Other systems". See above.
A command-line window is also referred to as a "terminal window". On Windows it is called an "MS-DOS window" and is available from the Start Menu, inside Programs, through the "MS-DOS" item. The Mac OSX equivalent is the application Terminal located in Applications → Utilities.
To launch OmegaT, you must normally type two commands. The first of these is:
cd {folder}
where {folder}
is the name of the folder, with complete path, in which your OmegaT program - specifically, the file OmegaT.jar
- is located. In practice, this command will therefore be something like this:
cd C:\Program Files\OmegaT
cd /Applications/OmegaT
cd /usr/local/omegat
This command changes the folder to the folder containing the executable OmegaT file. The second command is the command which actually launches OmegaT. In its most basic form, this command is:
java -jar OmegaT.jar
Pay attention to the capitalization - it is important.
This method has a particular benefit of being suitable for debugging: if an error occurs during use of the program, an error message is output in the terminal window which may contain useful information on the cause.
.bat
file/launch scriptMethod 1 is a somewhat impractical way of launching a program routinely. For this reason, the two commands described above are contained in a file (a "script", also called a ".bat
file" on Windows systems).
When this file is executed, the commands within it are automatically carried out. Consequently, to make changes to the launch command, it is sufficient to modify the file. When OmegaT is launched from the file, the new commands are then executed.
The basic command has already been mentioned above. Changes to this command involve the addition of "arguments" to it. Arguments are added after the initial "java
", and before the "-jar OmegaT.jar
" part.
A list of possible arguments follows. You can have more information about the arguments by typing man java
in the terminal window. man
is a terminal window command that displays a manual of the selected command. Your system may or may not have a manual for the command java
in your language.
-Duser.language=XX
Normally, i.e. when OmegaT is launched without any arguments, the program first detects the language of the user's operating system. If a user interface in this language is available, OmegaT uses it. So, if the user's operating system is Russian and OmegaT has been localized in Russian, OmegaT is displayed with a Russian user interface, Russian menus, etc. If the language of the user's system is not available, OmegaT defaults to English. This is the standard behaviour.
The "-Duser.language=XX
" argument causes OmegaT to use the language specified rather than the language of the user's operating system. "XX" in the command stands for the two-digit code of the desired language. To launch OmegaT with a French interface (for example on a Russian operating system), the command would therefore be:
java -Duser.language=fr -jar OmegaT.jar
-Duser.country=XX
Next to the language, you can also specify the country, for example CN or TW in case of the Chinese language. To get the correct Instant start guide, you need to specify both the language and the country. This is necessary even if there's only one combination available, like pt_BR in case of Portuguese / Brazil. .
-Dswing.aatext=true
This argument effects anti-aliasing of the fonts, thereby improving their appearance.
-XmxZZM
This command assigns more memory to OmegaT. By default, 256 MB are assigned, so there is no advantage in assigning less than this figure. "ZZ" stands for the amount of memory assigned, in megabytes. The command to launch OmegaT with assignment of 1024 MB (1 gigabyte) of memory is therefore:
java -Xmx1024M -jar OmegaT.jar
Arguments can be combined. To launch OmegaT with all the examples described above, the command would be:
java -Dswing.aatext=true -Duser.language=pt -Duser.country=BR -Xmx1024M -jar OmegaT.jar
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@omegat.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/omegat co -P omegat
$ ant jar release