• Colt should happily run on any Unix and any Windows with java-1.2.x or higher. Currently, we know it runs at least on Linux, Solaris, MacOSX and Windows 2000 or higher.

• Download colt-{version}.(tar.gz, zip) from here. Releases can be installed via a tar.gz file (Unix) or zip file (Windows).

Warning

• Because of a bug in Solaris tar, Solaris users should use gnu tar to unpack archives.
• Due too an obscure bug, Winzip and possibly other Windows decompression tools may miss empty directories. Consequently, use the .zip download file on Windows, and DO NOT decompress tar[.gz] files on Windows.

• Decompress the file into any convenient directory (the software is relocatable)

In the examples below we assume as installation directory

/opt/colt                         (Unix)
c:\colt                           (Windows) 

If you choose to install into an alternative location (e.g. /usr/local, $HOME, d:\apps) then substitute the paths used in examples on this website accordingly.

cd /opt	 
tar -zxvf colt-{version}.tar.gz   (Unix)
Winzip colt-{version}.zip         (Windows)

This will create the directory tree /opt/colt/ (Unix) or c:\colt (Windows).

• Add colt.jar and concurrent.jar to your CLASSPATH

export CLASSPATH=/opt/colt/lib/colt.jar:/opt/colt/lib/concurrent.jar:$CLASSPATH  (on Unix bash style)
set CLASSPATH=c:\colt\lib\colt.jar;c:\colt\lib\concurrent.jar;%CLASSPATH%        (on Windows)

• If you ever want to uninstall the software, type

rm -fr /opt/colt                  (Unix)
rmdir c:\colt /s/q                (Windows)