[m-users.] installing Mercury on Ubuntu

[Tomas By]

Hi,

You do not need an existing Mercury installation.

Just unpack the sources and say

  ./configure
  make
  make install

/Tomas



On Mon, June 22, 2015 22:36, nll at dent.vctlabs.com wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I trust this is the right list for this question and I hope someone can
> give me guidance.
>
> I have installed Mercury on a computer running  Gentoo Linux.  This was
> not hard because Gentoo has prepared an install.  I also have an Ubuntu
> computer supplied by my company, and wish to install Mercury there also. I
> have not found a place to acquire a standard Ubuntu install (really a
> Debian, I guess) for Mercury.  I have acquired a source package, but in
> reading about installation bootstrapping was mentioned, and it appears
> that an existing Mercury installation is required in order to compile
> Mercury.  I see that the Mercury compiler has much Mercury code, so I
> suppose that is why an existing installation is required.
>
> I looked on the net, but have not found information on how to proceed with
> installation on Ubuntu.  There may be a repository which has an install
> for Ubuntu, but I have not found it.  I would appreciate some help with
> this, if anyone can give me a clue.
>
> I am running Ubuntu version Ubuntu 14.04.02 LTS
>
> Noel (Nick) Lockwood
>
>
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