Installing LUX (LUX)

12 Installing LUX

You can obtain the LUX source code at http://lux.quae.nl. The distribution comes in one compressed tar file called lux-1.0.tar.gz (if the version is 1.0). To compile LUX, follow the instructions given below (with % introducing a command line to type in, do not type the % itself).

Extract the sources from the distribution file:
```
% tar xzf lux-1.0.tar.gz
```
A subdirectory lux-1.0 is created and filled with all necessary source files.
Go into the source directory:
```
% cd lux-1.0
```
Configure for compilation on your system:
```
% ./configure
```
Your system is investigated for various peculiarities, and various necessary additional files are created, tailored to your system. To see all options of configure, do
```
% ./configure --help
```
Compile the source files in the local directory:
```
% make
```
If all goes well, an executable lux is generated in the src subdirectory.
To run the tests provided with LUX, execute
```
% make check
```
If you want to make LUX available to all users on the system, then type
```
% make install
```
You may need administrative privileges for this, unless you specified a --prefix on the ./configure command that points to a directory of your own; do ./configure --help for details.

By default, the executable is installed as /usr/local/bin/lux, the documentation is installed as /usr/local/share/doc/lux.info*.

You can read the documentation using
```
% info lux
```
and also using the help command from inside LUX.