Binary RPM packages of Swarm for LinuxPPC R5 (1999) users are available here. Source packages are available at: ftp://ftp.santafe.edu/pub/swarm/redhat/SRPMS Minimum requirements ==================== The following Red Hat packages that come with the standard Linux PPC R5 (in most respects identical to Red Hat 6.0 for Intel machines) distribution are all required before commencing installing *any* of various Swarm packages: egcs, egcs-objc, libpng, libpng-devel, zlib, xpm, xpm-devel, blt, tcl, tk [Note depending on the kind of installation option you selected, some, or all of these are installed by default]. Demo package ============ The `swarmdemos' package installs a handful of swarm applications, and requires only the above mentioned packages and does not require a Swarm installation. It's ideal for `test-driving' a Swarm application. * swarmdemos-2.0.1-2.rh6.ppc.rpm Basic Swarm packages: ==================== At this stage for PPC users there is only `swarm-base' packages for Swarm development in Objective C (we are still in the process of porting HDF5 to PPC): * swarm-2.0.1-2.rh6.ppc.rpm: the `vanilla' Objective C Swarm package, which requires only the minimum requirements outlined above. Java support enabling `add-on' package: ======================================= * Kaffe 1.0.4b with respect to Swarm is broken on the PPC platform, since we have limited resources (and one *very slow* PPC) we would appreciate hearing from any PPC users who would like to assist us in testing and debugging Kaffe and Swarm under the PowerPC platform. * We have had reports of successful installation on PPC against the Blackdown JDK 1.2 (http://www.blackdown.org) with an install of Swarm from source, but no RPMs as yet. Advanced Swarm packages (not required for new users): ==================================================== swarm-static contains the Swarm libraries statically-linked, useful when you wish to profile an application: * swarm-static-2.0.1-2.rh6.ppc.rpm you will require one of the `swarm-base' packages to be pre-installed. [Note: this package is *not* required for any Swarm functionality, and will generally not be required by new or novice users].