tar.gz binary

An even less automatic way is to use a tar ball .tar.gz file. It contains the binaries as built on a stable Ubuntu or unstable Debian distribution. It should work on any GNU/Linux distribution with the following libraries installed: (a fairly recent) libc.so.6, libncurses.so.5, libreadline.so.6, etc. and Python 2.6. We chose this Python version because it is recent enough to provide nice features for Par4All and not too recent to be absent from most Linux distributions…  Look at the Par4All organization documentation to have the list of some needed packages.

Once you have downloaded one of these .tar.gz packages from http://download.par4all.org, extract it with the following command:

% tar xvzf <the_package>.tar.gz

It will create a directory named par4all. Move this directory to its final location:

% sudo mv par4all /usr/local

In any case, you will then need to source one of the following shell scripts which set up the environment variables for proper Par4All execution:

If you use bash, sh, dash, etc…

% source /usr/local/par4all/etc/par4all-rc.sh

If you use csh, tcsh, etc…

% source /usr/local/par4all/etc/par4all-rc.csh

For more information, look at the documentation section.