Explain what this how-to article is for. For example, you might write an article to teach people at your company how to set up a corporate email account or file an expense report.

Linux Instructions

These instructions are for Ubuntu 18.10 x64. You may need to adapt them if you use a different distribution.

  1. Install the .NET Core SDK using the instructions at https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/linux-package-manager/ubuntu18-10/sdk-current

    $ wget -q https://packages.microsoft.com/config/ubuntu/18.10/packages-microsoft-prod.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i packages-microsoft-prod.deb
$ sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install dotnet-sdk-2.2


  2. Install Mercurial from your distribution

    $ sudo apt-get install mercurial


  3. Clone the ZILF repository

    $ hg clone https://bitbucket.org/jmcgrew/zilf/


  4. Build and publish the projects

    $ cd zilf
$ for i in Zilf Zapf; do dotnet publish src/$i --self-contained -c Release -r linux-x64; done


  5. Link the binaries to someplace in your PATH

    $ mkdir -p ~/bin
$ ln -s $PWD/src/*/bin/Release/*/*/publish/Zilf ~/bin/zilf
$ ln -s $PWD/src/*/bin/Release/*/*/publish/Zapf ~/bin/zapf



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