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FTree is available for download subject to the conditions below.

FTree is available on a free use basis (for non-commercial usage) and is copyright © Clive Stubbings. See the Copyright statement.
FTree comes WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. You download and use it entirely at your own risk.
FTree is a tool for accessing GEDCOM and genealogy data. I use it and a number of other people use it. However, I MAKE NO CLAIMS it wont trash your data and I would strongly recommend that you take care to keep copies, maintain backups and be aware that data from imported GEDCOM files that is not understood may be lost.

Download

Below are a few different downloads for different Linux versions. The latest release is built in both 32 and 64 bit versions then packaged using different package managers. The 64-bit builds are new and hence less used, but have the advantage that you don't need to load 32bit multilib libraries.

32 bit:

TGZ	ftree-2.1-i386.tgz	MD5: 7bbe1b2eed098b7cd744db3850ecdc56	Good for: any 32bit system
RPM	ftree-2.1-1.i386.rpm	MD5: d876fc1db865aa6356c84144ce84717e	Good for: Redhat, Scientific, Centos, Fedora etc

64 bit:

TGZ	ftree-2.1-x86_64.tgz	MD5: d30607bbc417ca5725106dfabbedb422	Good for: any 64bit system
RPM	ftree-2.1-1.x86_64.rpm	MD5: 630211dee03308ced224e3f913fc0a99	Good for: Redhat, Scientific, Centos, Fedora etc

If one of the above formats doesn't work for you, drop me an email.

In case you are need them the old development releases are here

Installation

Install using your normal tools or

RPM

To install FTree, either use your distributions package manager or if you need to do it manually the following RPM options may be useful. These are only RPM examples.. there are probably other ways of doing the same thing.. I'm not an RPM expert..

To install for the first time

   rpm -iv ./ftree-2.1-1-i386.rpm


   rpm -iv ./ftree-2.1-1-x86_64.rpm

Or, if you already have a version installed, you can upgrade using the RPM '-U' option..

   rpm -Uv ./ftree-2.1-1-i386.rpm


   rpm -Uv ./ftree-2.1-1-x86_64.rpm

TGZ installation

To install FTree from the tgz file, just ungzip/untar the tgz file somewhere appropriate.

Package dependencies

32bit package
GLIBC >= 2.7, libpthread.so.0 libX11.so.6 libXpm.so.4 libstdc++.so.6 libm.so.6 libgcc_s.so.1 libc.so.6

On my Arch Linux system these are provided by lib32-gcc-libs lib32-glibc lib32-libx11 lib32-libxpm

64bit package
GLIBC >= 2.14, libpthread.so.0 libX11.so.6 libXpm.so.4 libstdc++.so.6 libm.so.6 libgcc_s.so.1 libc.so.6

On my Arch Linux system these are provided by gcc-libs glibc libx11 libxpm

Optional dependencies

Ftree can write simple graphviz dot files. You can get graphviz from http://www.graphviz.org/ There is some example output on the screenshots page.

Testing

At the moment, the FTree install does not create destop links so you will need to run from a command shell. To test FTree, either just run it and use file->load to load one of your own GEDCOM files, or, if you don't have any GEDCOM files handy, there are a couple of example files that should be installed in

/usr/share/doc/ftree-2.1/examples

One contains a few odd bits of the UK royal family tree, the other is the Hobbit tree from Lord of the Rings. I selected these two as examples because all the information is in the public domain, not because I have any particular interest in the royal family or hobbits...

You can also start FTree with the name of the file you want to look at on the command line

ftree /usr/share/doc/ftree-2.1/examples/royal.ged

Of course, you could just start FTree and add some data.

Last modified: 22nd September 2016

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