2 Installation

2.2 Extracting product files

Liquid Common Lisp is supplied in a set of files created using the UNIXtar facility. The files for any given platform are contained in twotar archives:

Onetar archive, common to all platforms, contains documentation and examples.
Anothertar archive contains files specific to the platform.

Table 2.1 lists the names of thetar files containing the documentation and platform-specific files in the CD-ROM distribution. If you obtain the distribution by means other than CD-ROM, the names of thetar files may differ.

UNIXtar files in the Liquid Common Lisp release
File name Platform Contents
lcl-5-0-common.tar All Shared between all ports
lcl-5-0-hppa.tar HP/HP-UX Platform-specific files
lcl-5-0-rios.tar RS6000/AIX Platform-specific files
lcl-5-0-sgi.tar SGI/IRIX Platform-specific files
lcl-5-0-solaris.tar SPARC/Solaris Platform-specific files
lcl-5-0-sunrise.tar SPARC/SunOS Platform-specific files

UNIX`tar` files in the Liquid Common Lisp release
File name	Platform	Contents
`lcl-5-0-common.tar`	All	Shared between all ports
`lcl-5-0-hppa.tar`	HP/HP-UX	Platform-specific files
`lcl-5-0-rios.tar`	RS6000/AIX	Platform-specific files
`lcl-5-0-sgi.tar`	SGI/IRIX	Platform-specific files
`lcl-5-0-solaris.tar`	SPARC/Solaris	Platform-specific files
`lcl-5-0-sunrise.tar`	SPARC/SunOS	Platform-specific files

If you have obtained the distribution on CD-ROM, use the following procedures to extract the product files from the tar files:

: 1. Load the CD-ROM into your drive.
: 2. Connect to the directory into which you intend to install the distribution.
: 3. Execute the following UNIX command:

tar xvf device lcl-5-0-common.tar platform_tar_file1 ...

: In thistar command, device is the device that represents the CD-ROM drive,lcl-5-0-common.tar is the name of thetar file that contains the documentation, and platform_tar_files are the names of thetar files that contains files specific to the platforms you want to install on. For the device that represents your CD-ROM drive, see the documentation for your platform. For the names of thetar files in the CD-ROM distribution, see Table 2.1.
: Thetar command extracts the product files from the CD-ROM into the subdirectoriescommon, platform, and platform-realfiles, and various subdirectories below these three, creating directories as needed.

If you have obtained the distribution by a means such as FTP that placestar files on your local disk, use the following procedures to extract the product files from thetar files:

: 1. Examine the names of thetar files. If they end with the suffix.Z, they have been compressed, using the UNIXcompress facility. Use the following UNIX command to uncompress the files:

uncompress lcl-5-0-common.tar.Z platform_tar_file.Z

: In thisuncompress command,lcl-5-0-common.tar.Z is the name of the compressedtar file that contains the documentation, and platform_tar_file.Zis the name of the compressedtar file that contains files specific to your platform. Theuncompress command replaces
lcl-5-0-common.tar.Z and platform_tar_file.Z with the uncompressed fileslcl-5-0-common.tar and platform_tar_file.
: 2. Connect to the directory into which you intend to install the distribution.
: 3. Execute the following UNIX commands:

tar xvf - < lcl-5-0-common.tar
tar xvf - < platform_tar_ile

: Thetar command extracts the product files from thetar files into the directorieslcl/5-0/*, automatically creating any missing directories.

Liquid Common Lisp 5.0 Release and Installation Notes - 9 JUN 1997

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