The first step is to download the software. If you are using a WWW
browser, you can point it at the Zebra distribution archive at
<
http://www.indexdata.dk/zebra.html>
, and follow the link named
Download the latest version of the software (xxx), where xxx
is the current version of Zebra.
If you use an FTP client, you can use normal, anonymous FTP. Connect
to the host ftp.indexdata.dk
, log in as ftp
, and give your
Email-address as the password. Then type cd index/yaz
, and
use the dir
command to locate the current version of Zebra. The
file will be named zebra-xxx
, where xxx
is the current
version of the software. Remember to use the bin
command before
using get
to download the software.
Once the distribution archive has been dowloaded, it must be
decompressed. To do this, use the command gunzip
command (if your
system doesn't have the gunzip
program, you will need to acquire
this separately). Finally, use the command tar xvf
<file>
to unpack the archive.
If you downloaded the source version of the software (this is the only option today, although we expect to release binary versions for Linux, SunOS, and Digital Unix shortly), you will have to compile Zebra before you can use it.
On many of the major version of the Unix operating system, compiling
Zebra is a simple matter of typing make
in the top-level
distribution directory (this is the directory that was created when
you executed tar
). Normally, Zebra compiles cleanly at least on
Linux, Digital Unix (DEC OSF/1), and IBM AIX. On certain platforms
(such as SunOS), you will need to edit the top-level Makefile
to
set the ELIBS
variable to include the Berkeley Socket
Libraries. On other Unix platforms, you may need to modify
Makefiles or header files, but in general, we have found Zebra to be
easily portable across modern Unix-versions. You do need an ANSI-C
compliant compiler (you'll see a long list of Syntax-errors during the
compile if your default compiler is not ANSI C), but again, this is
standard on most modern Unix-systems. If you don't have one, the
freely available GNU C compiler is available for many systems.