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Release date: 2010-07-01 10:41:32
Description of this release
This is a minor maintenance release of Inform, with no new features, which corrects about 60 mostly obscure issues arising from the introduction of the much more substantial 6E59 release.
The change log can be browsed here.
- I7_6E72_OSX.dmg
Inform for Mac OS X 
Universal Binary for Macs running Tiger 10.4.3 or later, including Leopard 10.5 and Snow Leopard 10.6. (Panther 10.3.9 is unsupported.) Your browser may automatically mount the image once downloaded: if not, double-click the .dmg file by hand. Either way, you should see a Finder window open showing a virtual disk. This contains the Inform application Inform.app. Simply drag this to the computer’s Applications folder, or wherever else you like. To uninstall: Drag the application to the trash. - I7_6E72_Windows.exe
Inform for Windows 
Installer for all versions of Windows from Windows 95 onwards. (For Windows 95 and 98, Internet Explorer 5.0 or later must also be installed.) Double click on the downloaded executable file to start installation. For most users the default install parameters are what is required, so just keep clicking "Next" until the install has completed. An entry for "Inform 7" will appear in the Start Menu, from which Inform can be run. To uninstall: Go to "Add or Remove Programs" in the Control Panel, select "Inform 7" and click on "Remove". - I7_6E72_Linux_all.tar.gz
Command line Inform built for Linux on x86_64, i386, ppc, armv5tel, s390, and s390x architectures 
CLI Inform for Linux is supplied as a gzipped tar. Once this is opened, installation instructions can be found in the file INSTALL, and operational instructions in README or the manual page installed by the Inform installer. This is an assembly of a command-line interface written in Perl together with independent command-line tools. - gnome-inform7-6E72-1.i586.rpm
Inform for GNOME on Linux, packaged for OpenSUSE 11.3 
(This is a .rpm archive.) Double-click on the downloaded file and enter your administrator password. When Software Manager (YaST 2) starts, click Accept. YaST will tell you if it needs to install any dependencies. To uninstall: start Software Manager and type gnome-inform7 in the search box. Click it with the right-mouse button, choose Delete, and click Accept. - gnome-inform7-6E72-2-i686.pkg.tar.xz
Inform for GNOME on Linux, packaged for Arch Linux 
(This is an Arch Linux package.) To install this package, open a terminal, change to the parent directory of the package and type "su -c 'pacman -U gnome-inform7-6E59-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz'". To uninstall: Open a terminal and type "su -c pacman -Rs gnome-inform7". - gnome-inform7-6E72-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
Inform for GNOME on Linux, packaged for Arch Linux (64-bit version)
(This is an Arch Linux package.) To install this package, open a terminal, change to the parent directory of the package and type "su -c 'pacman -U gnome-inform7-6E59-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz'". To uninstall: Open a terminal and type "su -c pacman -Rs gnome-inform7". - gnome-inform7-6E72-2.fc13.i686.rpm
Inform for GNOME on Linux, packaged for Fedora 13 
(This is a .rpm archive.) Double-click on the downloaded file. You will be asked whether you want to install the file; click "Install" to proceed and enter your administrator password. If you get a message titled "Additional confirmation required" asking you to install extra packages, click "Continue". If you get a message titled "Authentication is required to install an untrusted package", then click "Force Install" and enter your administrator password again. After the installation finishes, an entry for "Inform 7" will appear under "Programming" in the "Applications" menu. To uninstall: Go to "Add/Remove Software" in the "System/Administration" menu and type "gnome-inform7" in the "Find" box. Click "Find", then uncheck the check box in front of the package. Click "Apply" and type in your administrator password to uninstall it. - gnome-inform7_6E72-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb
Inform for GNOME on Linux, packaged for Ubuntu 10.04 (64-bit version) 
(This is a .deb archive.) Double-click on the downloaded file to start installation. Click "Install Package" and enter your password. An entry for "GNOME Inform 7" will appear under "Programming" in the "Applications" menu after the installation process. To uninstall: Go to "Synaptic Package Manager" under "Administration" in the "System" menu, find "gnome-inform7" in the list, right-click on it, and select "Mark for complete removal". Then click "Apply". - gnome-inform7_6E72-0ubuntu2_i386.deb
Inform for GNOME on Linux, packaged for Ubuntu 10.04
(This is a .deb archive.) Double-click on the downloaded file to start installation. Click "Install Package" and enter your password. An entry for "GNOME Inform 7" will appear under "Programming" in the "Applications" menu after the installation process. To uninstall: Go to "Synaptic Package Manager" under "Administration" in the "System" menu, find "gnome-inform7" in the list, right-click on it, and select "Mark for complete removal". Then click "Apply". - gnome-inform7_6E72-2_i386.deb
Inform for GNOME on Linux, packaged for Debian Lenny 
(This is a .deb archive.) Type in a console "dpkg -i gnome-inform7_6E72-2_i386.deb" as root to install GNOME Inform 7 on your system. An entry for "GNOME Inform 7" will appear under "Programming" in the "Applications" menu. To uninstall: Go to "Synaptic Package Manager" under "Administration" in the "System" menu, find "gnome-inform7" in the list, right-click on it, and select "Mark for complete removal". Then click "Apply".