Prerequisites for installation on Debian systems

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Please be sure that you have the following packages installed (some of dependency packages reside in the non-free repository, so you may need to add it to apt's source list):

• make
• libmotif-dev
• libc6-dev
• tcsh
• xterm
• rlwrap
• x11proto-core-dev
• x11proto-print-dev
• x11proto-xext-dev
• libxt-dev
• libx11-dev
• xutils-dev
• libxext-dev
• libxpm-dev
• xfonts-100dpi
• xfonts-75dpi
• nedit (Debian 5 only)

Use a package manager of your choice or execute with root privileges:

apt-get install make libmotif-dev libc6-dev tcsh xterm rlwrap x11proto-core-dev x11proto-print-dev x11proto-xext-dev libxt-dev libx11-dev xutils-dev libxext-dev libxpm-dev xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi

Additionally for Debian 5 (Lenny) only since xedit is not available:

apt-get install nedit

Now proceed with download and installation of SH/SHM.

Binary packages for Debian 4 (Etch)

Thanks to Jens Oeser from Munich university ready-to-install Debian packages are available for Intel based CPUs:

• ​libmotif-dev
• ​libmotif3
• ​motif-clients
• ​shm_2.4i

Install all downloaded files as root user:

dpkg -i libmotif3_2.2.3-2_i386.deb libmotif-dev_2.2.3-2_i386.deb motif-clients_2.2.3-2_i386.deb shm_2.4g-1_i386.deb

Please note: This SH/SHM version is outdated. If you want to use the latest version, you'll have to compile SH/SHM on your own using the motif libraries provided for Etch.

Known issues

No problems at all.