## Installation

Installation — How to build and install PHAT on your system

## Linux Systems

If you're familiar with standard tarball compilation and installation procedures, then PHAT won't pose a problem for you. If you're not used to the tarball dance, you'll still probably do just fine if you follow these instructions.

Apart from having a generally sane Linux distribution and build environment, you need to have GTK+-2.0 or greater installed, along with it's development files.

The magic incantantations to build and install PHAT are as follows:

            tar -xzvpf phat.tar.gz
            cd phat.tar.gz
            ./configure
            make
            su
            <enter root password>
            make install
            /sbin/ldconfig

Replace "phat.tar.gz" above with the actual name of the package you downloaded and you should be golden.

## Other Systems

I don't see why PHAT should fail to build on other POSIX systems such as the BSDs, but I'm not supporting it either. If and when that "I" becomes a "we," that policy may change.

If you're using Windows you're probably S.O.L., but that too could change in the future (see above).