Running TextSTAT on Linux

Tested on: Xubuntu 12.04 LTS (64-bit), using default python interpreter (v2.7.3)

[Last update: 04/03/2014]

Install/check for TextSTAT dependencies:

```
sudo apt-get install python-tk
```

Download latest release (check here for latest version number) and run TextSTAT:

mkdir TextSTAT
cd TextSTAT
wget http://neon.niederlandistik.fu-berlin.de/static/textstat/TextSTAT-2.9c-source.zip
unzip TextSTAT-2.9c-source.zip
chmod +x TextSTAT.pyw
./TextSTAT.pyw

Download icon and create desktop shortcut (copy-paste [Desktop Entry] into a new file called TextSTAT.desktop on your Desktop, don’t forget to adapt the full path to TextSTAT.pyw and textstat_logo.gif):

wget http://neon.niederlandistik.fu-berlin.de/static/textstat/textstat_logo.gif

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=TextSTAT 2.9c
Comment=Concordancing Program written in Python
Exec=/path/to/TextSTAT/TextSTAT.pyw
Icon=/path/to/TextSTAT/textstat_logo.gif

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