Blue for Solaris


The current version of Blue for Solaris is version 0.9.7.

You will need Solaris 2.5 or later to install and run Blue. The packages are compressed, you will need uncompress or gunzip to uncompress them.

Packages available:

The current Solaris package includes the language manual, the environment manual, and some example projects.

Installation

After loading the archive onto your system, uncompress it. Use gunzip if the file has a ".gz" suffix, or uncompress if it has a ".Z" suffix. gunzip is GNU software; it is available from most archives if you do not have it. (Some web browsers have the decompression step built in. In that case the file should have been saved without the .gz suffix and you do not need to use gunzip.)

Untar tar files using tar.

Example:

$ gunzip blue.094.linux.tar.gz
$ tar xf blue.094.linux.tar
This will create a directory with all blue files. Read the README file in that directory and follow the instructions.

Getting started

To get started, I recommend that you also load the language manual, the environment manual and some example projects. All are available from the Download Corner.

Problems

If you have problems, please read the sections Installation Problems and Frequently Asked Questions.

A Favour...

If you get Blue, you could do me a big favour: mail me and tell me about it. At the moment, I have no idea how good or bad the setup is, for example, on how many systems the installation script works or does not work, on what systems blue runs smoothly or fails, etc...

To improve the distribution, it would help me a lot if you would send me a short mail, telling me whether the installation was successful or not, what problems you encountered, and if so, how you solved them. Thanks!

Send mail now.


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