We strive to produce a genealogy program that is both intuitive for hobbyists and feature-complete for professional genealogists.
Please read the COPYING file first.
Please read the INSTALL file if you intend to build from source.
Requirements
The following packages MUST be installed in order for Gramps to work:
The following three packages with GObject Introspection bindings (the gi packages)
The following package is needed for full translation of the interface
to your language:
Translation of GTK elements to your language, with
xx your language code; e.g. for Dutch you need
language-pack-gnome-nl. The translation of the
Gramps strings is included with the gramps source.
The following packages are STRONGLY RECOMMENDED to be installed:
Used to show maps in the geography view.
It may be osmgpsmap, osm-gps-map, or python-osmgpsmap,
but the Python bindings for this must also be present, so gir1.2-osmgpsmap-1.0.
Without this the GeoView will not be active, see
https://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gramps_5.0_Wiki_Manual_-_Categories#Geography_Category
Improves localised sorting in Gramps. In particular, this
applies to sorting in the various views and in the
Narrative Web output. It is particularly helpful for
non-Latin characters, for non-English locales and on MS
Windows and Mac OS X platforms. If it is not available,
sorting is done through built-in libraries. PyICU is
fairly widely available through the package managers of
distributions. See http://pyicu.osafoundation.org/
(These are Python bindings for the ICU package.
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/PyICU/)
The following packages are optional:
Enable spell checking in the notes. Gtkspell depends on
enchant. A version of gtkspell with gobject introspection
is needed, so minimally version 3.0.0
The GNU Revision Control System (RCS) can be used to manage
multiple revisions of your family trees. See info at
https://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gramps_5.0_Wiki_Manual_-_Manage_Family_Trees#Archiving_a_Family_Tree
Only rcs is needed, NO python bindings are required
Python Image Library (PILLOW) is needed to crop
images and also to convert non-JPG images to
JPG so as to include them in LaTeX output.
(For Python3 a different source may be needed,
python-imaging or python-pillow or python3-pillow)
Enables Gramps to manage Exif metadata embedded in your
media. Gramps needs version 0.5 or greater.
See https://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=GEPS_029:_GTK3-GObject_introspection_Conversion#GExiv2_for_Image_metadata
More font support in the reports
A library use to associate a geographical position (latitude, longitude)
to a place name. This is used if you already have osmgpsmap installed.
If installed, when you add or link a place from the map, you have a red line
at the end of the table for selection.
Debian, Ubuntu, ... : gir1.2-geocodeglib-1.0
Fedora, Redhat, ... : geocode-glib
openSUSE : geocode-glib
ArchLinux : geocode-glib
...
Python bindings of fontconfig are required for displaying
genealogical symbols
Optional packages required by Third-party Addons
Third-party Addons are written by users and developers and unless stated are not officially part of Gramps.
For more information about Addons see: https://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=Third-party_Plugins
Prerequistes required for the following Addons to work:
No longer needed:
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Since Gramps 4.2:
gir-webkit
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Since Gramps 4.0:
pygoocanvas, pygtk, pyexiv2
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Since Gramps 3.3:
python-enchant Enchant
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Since Gramps 3.2:
python glade bindings
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Since Gramps 3.1:
yelp - Gnome help browser. No offline help is shipped see Gramps website for User manual
Documentation
The User Manual is maintained on the Gramps website:
