Gregg M. Townsend
Department of Computer Science
The University of Arizona
www.cs.arizona.edu/icon/uguide/install.htm
Last updated November 8, 2009
These instructions explain how to install Unix binaries of Version 9.5 of Icon. For instructions on building an Icon source package, see Building Icon from Source.
To install Icon in your own directory, just unpack the tar file.
This produces a directory with
four subdirectories: bin
, lib
,
doc
, and man
.
Add the bin
directory to your shell's search path.
For instructions on building and running Icon programs, see the
man pages for icon
and icont
.
For information about the Icon language, see the
documentation guide.
A single copy of Icon can be shared among users
by unpacking it in a public area, or moving it there.
We suggest renaming the directory to /opt/icon
for new installations, but any location is acceptable.
It is only important that the bin
and lib
directories retain those names as members of a common parent directory.
(More details about the Icon file organization are available
separately.)
You can make symbolic links from other locations
to programs in the Icon bin
directory.
For example, you can link
/usr/local/bin/icon
to /opt/icon/bin/icon
.
If you do this, link all of icon
, icont
,
iconx
, and (if present) vib
.