Swordfish Downloads
Swordfish is a cross-platform CAT (Computer Aided Translation) tool based on XLIFF 1.2 open standard published by OASIS.
Swordfish 1.0 is finally available! It is stable and safe to use in production work. Try it now on Windows, Mac OS X or Linux and buy a license in our Online Store.
Requirements
- Java 1.5 or better from Sun Microsystems is required to run Swordfish. Java is available as free download from http://www.java.com .
- Mozilla XULRunner is required on Linux systems.
Downloads
Follow these steps to install a Linux version:
- Open a terminal window.
- Change to the directory where the downloaded BIN installer was saved.
- Change the permission of the installer to be executable. Type:
chmod a+x <filename.bin> - Execute the installer. Type:
./<filename.bin>
If you execute the installer as root (su):
- The program is installed in a folder accessible to all users
- An icon is added to GNOME and KDE menus
- The command to launch the program (swordfish) is automatically added to system path
Ubuntu users:
- You need to download and install Java from http://www.java.com and adjust your PATH environment variable to use Sun's Java instead of the default FSF implementation of Java.
- The version of Firefox included in Ubuntu is incomplete. You must install xulrunner package. Open a console and execute
sudo apt-get install xulrunner
to install it.