Sozi is a presentation tool for SVG documents.

It is free software distributed under the terms of the Mozilla Public License 2.0.

More details can be found on the official web site: http://sozi.baierouge.fr

Building and installing Sozi from sources

Get the source files

Clone the repository:

git clone git://github.com/sozi-projects/Sozi.git

Install the build tools and dependencies

Install Node.js and the Grunt CLI. The build script for Sozi is known to work with Node.js 11 from Nodesource. If you plan to build a Windows executable from Linux or OS X, also install wine. In Debian/Ubuntu and their derivatives, you can type the following commands.

sudo apt install nodejs wine
sudo npm install grunt-cli -g

If you plan to build Debian packages, install the following additional packages:

sudo apt install devscripts debhelper

From the root of the source tree:

npm install

Get the binaries for ffmpeg (optional, video export will not work without them). Download and unzip the FFMPEG executables to the following folders:

• Linux 32-bit: vendor/ffmpeg/linux-ia32
• Linux 64-bit: vendor/ffmpeg/linux-x64
• Windows 32-bit: vendor/ffmpeg/win32-ia32
• Windows 64-bit: vendor/ffmpeg/win32-x64
• MacOS X 64-bit: vendor/ffmpeg/darwin-x64

Build

To build the desktop application for all platforms, run the following command from the root of the source tree:

grunt

After a successful build, you will get a dist folder that will contain the generated application archives for each platform.

You can customize the build by creating a custom configuration file. See config.default.json and config.linux-x64.json for examples. For instance, if you want to build 64-bit executables for OS X and Linux, the configuration file (config.linux-darwin-x64.json) will look like this:

{
    "platforms": [
        "darwin-x64",
        "linux-x64"
    ]
}

Then run Grunt with the --config option:

grunt --config=config.linux-darwin-x64.json

Other Grunt tasks are available for developers:

Install

Since Sozi 18.01, a Debian package is available for users of Debian or Ubuntu-based distributions.

sudo dpkg -i sozi_[...].deb

Alien can convert it to an RPM package by sudo alien --to-rpm.

For other platforms, Sozi is released as a zip/tar.xz archive that you can extract wherever you like.

• OS X users can drag the Sozi.app subfolder into their Applications folder.
• Windows and Linux users can run the Sozi executable directly from the extracted folder.

If installation on your specific platform is supported by Sozi, there will be an install folder in the extracted archive containing installation scripts. To install Sozi system-wide:

cd Sozi-[...]/install
sudo ./install.sh

To install Sozi in your home folder:

cd Sozi-[...]/install
./install-local.sh

In many situations, Sozi will not need additional software to be installed. If Sozi complains about missing libraries, here is the list of all the known runtime dependencies of the Sozi executable:

libasound2
libatk1.0-0
libc6
libcairo2
libcups2
libdbus-1-3
libexpat1
libfontconfig1
libfreetype6
libgcc1
libgconf-2-4
libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
libglib2.0-0
libgtk2.0-0
libnspr4
libnss3
libpango-1.0-0
libpangocairo-1.0-0
libstdc++6
libx11-6
libx11-xcb1
libxcb1
libxcomposite1
libxcursor1
libxdamage1
libxext6
libxfixes3
libxi6
libxrandr2
libxrender1
libxss1
libxtst6

Helping debugging Sozi

While Sozi is running, press F12 to open the developer tools. Check the Console tab for error messages.

Some environment variables will enable debugging features in Sozi. When running Sozi from the command line, you can add one or more variable assignments like this:

SOME_VAR=1 SOME_OTHER_VAR=1 sozi my-presentation.svg

Where SOME_VAR and SOME_OTHER_VAR are variable names from the first column of this table: