Installation on Linux should be trivial on most systems. Typically, this
will do:
First time installation
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- Get the dependencies
See http://www.swi-prolog.org/build/LinuxDistro.txt for your distro.
- Get the source
- Go into the toplevel dir
- do
% cp build.templ build
- edit build. The defaults build the same as the binary distributions,
installing the system in $HOME/bin/swipl.
- do
% ./build
Updating an installtion
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- From source archives
- Unpack the new archive
- copy build from the previous installation
- do
% ./build
- From a version downloaded using git
- do
% git pull
% ./prepare
% make distclean
% ./build
See README.git and INSTALL for details.