Some other/older solutions noted below:

• Limited hardware support. Laptop touchpad mice and wireless network adapters seem to be the main sore points, although support for these has improved markedly in recent versions.

Option 1: Install Ubuntu (or another Linux distribution)

Advantages:

• Gives you a full Linux installation to work with.
• Fast, stable, and well-supported.
• Works on PCs and Intel Macs (including under Parallels).

Disadvantages:

• Requires repartitioning your hard disk (unless running under Parallels)
• Switching between Linux and Windows requires a reboot.

Option 2: Install andLinux

andLinux is a special Linux version that runs in parallel with Windows. For step-by-step instructions on installing it and getting LKB running, see this tutorial.

Advantages:

• No need to repartition.
• Linux LKB can be run alongside Windows applications.

Disadvantages:

• Beta-test software; does not always install cleanly.
• Requires a lot of RAM, since you're running Windows and Linux alongside each other.
• Requires Windows.

Option 3: Knoppix+LKB

Knoppix+LKB is a bootable CD with Emacs and LKB pre-installed.

Advantages:

• No partitioning or installation required.
• LKB is pre-installed -- just boot and go.
• Works on PCs and Intel Macs.

Disadvantages:

• Limited hardware support. Laptop touchpad mice and wireless network adapters seem to be the main sore points.
• Slower than a "real" Linux installation, due to the relatively sluggish speed of a CD drive compared to a hard disk.
• Can't install your own software.

1. Install ubuntu

Note

If you wanted a dual-boot machine, it seems to work best if you partition your drive with the Windows utility (without formatting the new partition). Then boot from the Ubuntu CD and install to the largest continuous free space (the partition you just created). I strongly recommend also making sure all the drivers work (and maybe even being somewhere that you can have a wired Internet connectoin) before doing your Ubuntu install.

1. After installing Ubuntu, install emacs if you don't have it.

1. Install LKB (automatic installation.)

1. At the end of the LKB installation, it'll ask you to put some lines in your .emacs file, so do that.

1. In your .bashrc (which is in your home directory), put the following lines:

1. Edit your dot.emacs file

• [gslayden 12/13/2008] After installing as above on ubuntu x64, I got an error that libXm.so.4 couldn't be found when loading LKB in emacs. This appears to be fixed by creating a symbolic link in the ~/delphin/lkb/lib/linux.x86.64 directory as follows:

  • ln -s libXm.so.3 libXm.so.4

Note

If you wanted a dual-boot machine, it seems to work best if you partition your drive with the Windows utility (without formatting the new partition). Then boot from the Ubuntu CD and install to the largest continuous free space (the partition you just created). I strongly recommend also making sure all the drivers work (and maybe even being somewhere that you can have a wired Internet connectoin) before doing your Ubuntu install.

export DELPHINHOME=~/delphin

1. Edit your dot.emacs file

Go to ~/delphin/lkb/etc, and open dot.emacs. Change Line 63.

(load "fi-site-init" nil t)

to

(load "~/delphin/eli/fi-site-int" nil t)

1. Install ubuntu

You can either buy a book that comes with a Ubuntu disk or burn a disk yourself from the official Ubuntu website. If you want to get a linux-only machine, back up all your system before installing Ubuntu, and install Ubuntu. If you want to get a dual-boot machine, first, defragment your disk a couple of times to get a good chunk of free space on your disk before installing Ubuntu. In case you don't know how to defragment your disk, go to Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> Disk Deframgenter. It might say that you don't need to defragment, but defragment it anyway. You may also want to look into Wubi, although I don't really recommend it. It messes up your computer... FYI, It takes about 30 minutes to install Ubuntu.

1. After installing Ubuntu, install emacs if you don't have it.

Any linux distribution comes with Emacs, but it might not be pre-installed. Go to Applications -> Add/Remove, and look for Emacs.

1. Install LKB (automatic installation.)

Open your terminal, follow the LKB instructions.

1. At the end of the LKB installation, it'll ask you to put some lines in your .emacs file, so do that.

You may have to create your .emacs file first. Open your emacs, and press Ctrl-x-f, and type ~/.emacs at the bottom of your emacs window.

1. In your .bashrc (which is in your home directory), put the following lines:

Grammar Engineering Frequently Asked Questions

I want to install the LKB on my local machine, what should I do?

The LKB can downloaded from the DELPH-IN website, for both Windows and Linux. (There is a Mac version as well, but with only limited support.) If you want the full functionality, including [incr tsdb()], you need to install the Linux version.

Here is what worked in 2008:

1. install ubuntu
2. install emacs if you don't have it
3. install LKB
4. At the end of the LKB installation, it'll ask you to put some lines in your .emacs file, so do that.
5. in your .bashrc, put the following lines:

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$DELPHINHOME/lkb/lib/linux.x86.32:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH export LD_LIBRARY_PATH export DELPHINHOME=/home/mayo/delphin

NOTE: "/home/mayo/" should be replaced with yours, obviously...

(Thanks to Mayo Kudo for documenting her exerience.)

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-- EmilyBender - 12 Jan 2008