Installing Fox on Linux

You can install Fox under Linux either by compiling it from source or by using pre-built packages for your Linux distribution (currently only Debian).

Compiling from source

To compile Fox under Linux, please follow the instructions to compile Fox under Linux, which describe the requirements and the compilation itself.

Using pre-built packages

Debian package

Thanks to Carlo Segre, Fox is now available in Debian in the objcryst-fox package. As of 2008/11/16, this package is available in the unstable branch of Debian. See the sid/objcryst-fox package page.

If you are running Debian unstable, all you need to install Fox is:

• aptitude install objcryst-fox.

The following note on how to build Fox on Debian stable or testing was tested on Debian Lenny 2008/11/16 - please be careful with these instructions, most particularly do not add the binaries repository for unstable, only the source repository !

If you are running Debian testing (this may work on stable, I have not tested), you'll need the foolowing steps to rebuild Fox for your system:

• Add to /etc/apt/sources.list the source packages for unstable (note: as you add only the source package for unstable, this will not make unstable binaries available for your system), i.e. a line with (please use a local mirror, i.e. replace ftp.lip6.fr by e.g. ftp.uk.debian.org...):

  • deb-src http://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/linux/distributions/debian/ unstable main

• Update your packages indexes:

  • aptitude update

• Install the build dependencies for Fox:

  • apt-get build-dep objcryst-fox

• Build Fox (this will download the source package and build Fox in the current directory):

  • apt-get source -b objcryst-fox

• Install the .deb which is now available in the directory (the name will vary with the version of Fox and your architecture):

  • dpkg -i objcryst-fox_1.7.99.R1047-1_amd64.deb