Passepartout is only available as source code, although third-party binary packages do exist.
Passepartout is released under a BSD-style license, see COPYING in the source distribution.
Required software
Version 0.6.90 requires the following programs and libraries.
- libxml++ 1.0.x
- gtkmm 2.4.x
- libgnomecanvasmm 2.6.x
- Ghostscript
- xsltproc
Download
Passepartout releases are hosted at ftp.gnome.org.
Installation
Extract the tar archive and read the INSTALL file. It is strongly recommended that you apply all patches (if any) associated with a release before building.
SVN access
You can always get the latest development tree from the subversion repository.
Run the following command to get the sources:
svn co svn://svn.gnome.org/svn/passepartout/trunk passepartout
Note that you have to build the configure script on
your own; follow the automake / autoconf instructions in
DEVNOTES.