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  1.7.5            Linux     Windows
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  1.7.2            Linux     Windows
  1.7.1            Linux     Windows
  1.7              Linux     Windows

Installation

Blue currently supports x86 32/64 bit architectures. It should be easy to install. If there are any problems with compiling or installing blue, please contact me.

Linux (the fast way)

The following default Linux installation will put the blue files in /opt/blue. It will also add a link in usr/local/bin.

1. Download the source above
2. Extract the archive. "tar -xvzf blue1.0.tar.gz"
3. cd into the extracted directory. "cd blue"
4. su to root. "su root"
5. type "make fast"

Linux (the politically correct way)

The following default Linux installation will put the blue files in /opt/blue. It will also add a link in usr/local/bin.

1. Download the source above
2. Extract the archive. "tar -xvzf blue1.0.tar.gz"
3. cd into the extracted directory. "cd blue"
4. Execute make. "make"
5. su to root. "su root"
6. Execute make install(1). "make install"
7. Execute make test. "make test"

(1) Replace "make install" command with "make install INSTALL_DIR="/different/dir" to install to an alternate location. Give blue its own directory. For example, don't set INSTALL_DIR=/usr/local. If you want to install it to /usr/local set INSTALL_DIR=/usr/local/blue.

EEEPC ( and possibly other Ubuntu distributions) installation

A few extras may be needed to complete installation:

1. Download and extract sources
2. sudo su -
3. apt-get install freeglut3-dev
4. apt-get install libxxf86vm-dev
5. apt-get install libpng12-dev
6. apt-get install libfreetype6-dev
7. cd ~/blue ( or where ever blue is installed )
8. make fast

Microsoft Windows®

There seems to be a concensus that a new application should not append itself to the path. Blue respects this. You may want to add blue to your path or specify the absolute path to blue.exe when you execute it. Blue sets the ".bl" file type extension to a blue application. So double-clicking on a blue application will execute it.

1. Download the installer above
2. Double click on setup.exe