| Installing PHYLIP 3.6 |
Let's assume that you have fetched the appropriate executables archives (if any) for your machine, together with the Documentation and Sources archive.
These archives are not simply a single executable for general use. Instead they are a (large) number of files, squished together into one file, and thus called an "archive". You have to go through a step which involves getting all the files out of the archive and into a folder on your machine.
We will give these instructions for four different kinds of systems, Windows, Mac OS X Macintoshes, Mac OS 8 or 9, and Linux or Unix systems. Then we will describe how to access the documentation after installing the package.
| Windows |
On a Windows95, Windows NT, Windows98, Windows 2000, Windows me, or Windows xp system you should have three archive files, called phylipw.exe, phylipwx.exe, and phylipwy.exe. These are self-extracting archives, respectively the Documentation and Source Code archive and two Executables archives.
You should place them where you will want this PHYLIP installation to reside. For example, if you want to have your phylip3.66 folder be inside folder C:\phylip, you will want to have these archives in folder C:\phylip when you extract them. Then execute them as programs by clicking on them, one after another. Each one opens a dialog box. Select Unzip, and after it is finished, select OK and then Close. This will create a folder phylip3.66 in your current folder and place the files in folders within it.
A self-extracting archive has a small self-extraction program on its front, and when you run them as programs they extract themselves and write many files into your folder.
After the self-extraction is done, you will find the phylip3.66 folder which has three folders within it, called doc, exe, and src. There is also a web page phylip.html. You should read this in your browser. It contains links to the main documentation web page main.html and to the other documentation pages and programs.
| Macintosh Mac OS X |
The archives for Intel iMac and PowerMac Mac OS X are in the Apple .dmg disk image format. There is one .dmg disk image distributed. It is 8.8 Megabytes in size, and is compressed; when uncompressed it is several times larger. Note that Mac OS X version 10.0 does not support compressed disk image files, so the .dmg file we distribute will not work on it.
The disk image when downloaded is a file Phylip3.66-osx.dmg. If you click on that disk image will be uncompressed and you will see an icon that looks like an external disk drive and is called Phylip3.66-vol. It contains what looks like a normal folder called Phylip3.66, but you should not use the programs while they are in that folder. It is important that you use a copy of the contents of the disk image elsewhere on your system. Decide where the folder Phylip3.66 is going to reside, and copy that folder to that new location. Within it is all the source code, documentation, and executables.
The executables are "universal binaries" that will run on either the newer iMacs (which has Intel processors) or the older G3's, G4's or G5's that have PowerMac processors. (Basically they are each simply a pair of executables set up so that the processor chooses the right one and runs it).
