Colt - Installation Instructions
Author: Wolfgang Hoschek

Colt Sea Firefish | Version 1.2.0 - Last published Sep 9, 2004

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Supported Platforms
Colt should happily run on any Unix and any Windows with java-1.2.x or higher. Currently, we know it runs at least on Linux, Solaris, MacOSX and Windows 2000 or higher.
Download and Decompress Files
> > Download `colt-{version}.(tar.gz, zip)` from here. Releases can be installed via a tar.gz file (Unix) or zip file (Windows). Warning Because of a bug in Solaris tar, Solaris users should use gnu tar to unpack archives. Due too an obscure bug, Winzip and possibly other Windows decompression tools may miss empty directories. Consequently, use the .zip download file on Windows, and DO NOT decompress tar[.gz] files on Windows. Decompress the file into any convenient directory (the software is relocatable) In the examples below we assume as installation directory
> >     /opt/colt                         (Unix)
> >     c:\colt                           (Windows)
> > If you choose to install into an alternative location (e.g. `/usr/local, $HOME, d:\apps`) then substitute the paths used in examples on this website accordingly.
> >     cd /opt
> >     tar -zxvf colt-{version}.tar.gz   (Unix)
> >     Winzip colt-{version}.zip         (Windows)
> > This will create the directory tree `/opt/colt/` (Unix) or `c:\colt` (Windows). Add colt.jar and concurrent.jar to your CLASSPATH
> >     export CLASSPATH=/opt/colt/lib/colt.jar:/opt/colt/lib/concurrent.jar:$CLASSPATH  (on Unix bash style)
> >     set CLASSPATH=c:\colt\lib\colt.jar;c:\colt\lib\concurrent.jar;%CLASSPATH%        (on Windows)
Deinstallation
> > If you ever want to uninstall the software, type
> >     rm -fr /opt/colt                  (Unix)
> >     rmdir c:\colt /s/q                (Windows)

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