Chapter 2. Installation

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On Linux Systems
On Sun/Solaris Systems

On Linux Systems

The release for Linux will is available as an rpm archive that can be installed using the rpm tool and as a compressed tar that contains an installations script. root privileges are required for installation.

Using rpm archive

The RPM archive has a name of the form "Jamaica-version-linux-gnu-target.rpm". To install this archive, super user (root) privileges are required:

> su Password: #

The actual installation can then be performed using the rpm tool:

# rpm -i Jamaica-<version>-linux-gnu-<target>.rpm #

During the installation, Jamaica will be installed under /usr/local/jamaica-version. A soft link /usr/local/jamaica will be generated to refer to this directory.

To be able to use the tools without adjusting the PATH environment variable, soft links for the commands jamaica, jamaicah, jamaicavm and numblocks will be created in directory /usr/bin.

Using gzipped tar archive

The compressed tar archive has a name of the form "Jamaica-version-linux-gnu-target.tar.gz". To install this archive, super user (root) privileges are required:

> su Password: #

Before installation can proceed, the archive needs to be unpacked using the tar command:

# tar zxf Jamaica-<version>-linux-gnu-<target>.tar.gz

The actual installation can then be performed using the provided install script command:

# ./Jamaica.install