As of now, Borges has only been tested on Mandrake Linux. It should work on any Linux system provided the necessary dependencies are installed. Please inform us of any success or failure on any other system.
Current versions are published on SourceForge. There, you will find different packagings:
The different Borges packages are also part of the Mandrake Linux distribution.
Finally, if you like living dangerously, you can get the current CVS version with following parameters:CVS_RSH=ssh and CVSROOT=:ext:anoncvs@cvs.mandrakesoft.com:/cooker. Then, you can get the module Borges with password cvs.
If you do not install Borges from RPM packages, you'll have to check that the following softwares or libraries are available on your system:
perl-XML-Twig, perl-DateManip and perl-XML-LibXML libraries;
xfig diagrams editor if you wish to work with xfig diagrams;
DocBook DTD XML version 4.1.2 into /usr/share/sgml/docbook/xml-dtd-4.1.2/;
DocBook DSSSL stylesheets into /usr/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl-stylesheets/;
DocBook XSL stylesheets into /usr/share/sgml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets/;