2.1 Binary Installation

This section describes how to install Dezyne on an arbitrary system from a self-contained tarball providing binaries for Dezyne and for all its dependencies. This is often quicker than installing from source, which is described in the next sections. The only requirement is to have GNU tar and gzip.

2.1.1 Generic GNU/Linux Binary

Installing goes along these lines:

1. Download the binary tarball from
   https://dezyne.org/download/dezyne/dezyne-2.14.0-x86_64-linux.tar.gz, e.g.:

   $ wget https://dezyne.org/download/dezyne/\
   dezyne-2.14.0-x86_64-linux.tar.gz
   

   Make sure to download the associated .sig file and to verify the authenticity of the tarball against it; do something like:

   $ wget https://dezyne.org/download/dezyne/\
   dezyne-2.14.0-x86_64-linux.tar.gz.sig
   $ gpg --verify dezyne-2.14.0-x86_64-linux.tar.gz.sig
   

   If that command fails because you do not have the required public key, then run this command to import it:

   $ wget https://savannah.gnu.org/people/viewgpg.php?user_id=4348 \
         -qO - | gpg --import -
   

   and rerun the gpg --verify command.

   Take note that a warning like “This key is not certified with a trusted signature!” is normal.

   Now, you can unpack the tarball; do something like:

   $ tar --warning=no-timestamp -xf /path/to/\
   dezyne-2.14.0-x86-64.tar.gz
   

   Then try:

   $ cd dezyne-2.14.0
   $ ./dzn --help
   

2. Make the dzn command available from other locations or to other users on the machine, for instance with:

   $ ln -s $PWD/dzn ~/bin/dzn
   or
   # ln -s $PWD/dzn /usr/local/bin/dzn
   

3. And optionally, make the dzn-env prefix-command² available:

   $ ln -s $PWD/dzn-env ~/bin/dzn-env
   or
   # ln -s $PWD/dzn-env /usr/local/bin/dzn-env
   

4. Test your installation

   $ dzn hello
   $ dzn-env info dezyne
   

and get busy Dezyne’ing, see Getting Started! You can skip the following sections about building from source.

2.1.2 Generic Microsoft Windows Binary

Installing goes along these lines:

1. Download the binary zip archive from
   https://dezyne.org/download/dezyne/dezyne-2.14.0-x86_64-windows.zip,

after which you can extract the archive by using 7zip https://www.7-zip.org/. Please do not use the built-in Windows archive extraction tool: It does not honor the time stamps of the files in the archive and thus produces a faulty installation.

If your system comes with a virus scanner, consider creating an exception for dezyne-2.14.0.

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and get busy Dezyne’ing, see Getting Started! You can skip the following sections about building from source.