TECkit is a toolkit to help in converting legacy data to Unicode. At present Bibledit does not yet support TECkit, but provides its own tools for converting data to Unicode. Bibledit will work properly without TECkit.
To install TECkit, follow the below steps.
Open a terminal.
Download TECkit for Linux. In the terminal, type
svn checkout svn://scripts.sil.org/teckit
To verify the package is there, type
ls
You should see a subdirectory teckit.
Change into this subdirectory. Type
cd teckit
To generate some configuration files, type
./autogen.sh
Watch many messages, but no errors.
To configure the package, type
./configure --prefix=/usr
Watch many messages, but no errors.
To compile the package, type
make
Watch many messages, but no errors.
To install the package type
sudo make install
and provide the password. Watch many messages, but no errors.
TECkit should be installed now and is ready for use.
To go back to the home directory, type
cd
Optionally the teckit source can be cleaned away. To do that, type
rm -rf teckit