Grammatical Framework Download and Installation

GF 3.2 was released on 23 December 2010.

What's new? See the Release notes.

Binary packages for the latest release

Platform	Download	How to install
Ubuntu (32-bit)	gf_3.2-4_i386.deb	Double-click on the package icon, or use sudo dpkg -i gf_3.2-4_i386.deb
Ubuntu (64-bit)	gf_3.2-4_amd64.deb	Double-click on the package icon, or use sudo dpkg -i gf_3.2-4_amd64.deb
Linux (32-bit)	gf-3.2-bin-i386-linux.tar.gz	sudo tar -C /usr/local -zxf gf-3.2-bin-i386-linux.tar.gz
Linux (64-bit)	gf-3.2-bin-x86_64-linux.tar.gz	sudo tar -C /usr/local -zxf gf-3.2-bin-x86_64-linux.tar.gz
MacOS X	gf-3.2-snowleopard.pkg	Double-click on the package icon and follow the instructions
MacOS X	gf-3.2-bin-intel-mac.tar.gz	sudo tar -C /usr/local -zxf gf-3.2-bin-intel-mac.tar.gz
Windows	gf-3.2-bin-i386-windows.zip	unzip gf-3.2-bin-i386-windows.zip

More packages might be added later.

Notes

The Windows package is installed by just unpacking it anywhere. It finds the libraries relative to the .exe file.

The .deb packages work on Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10.

The .pkg package works on MacOS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard). The MacOS tar package works on 10.5 (Leopard) and 10.6 (Snow Leopard).

The MacOS and Linux tar packages are designed to be installed in /usr/local. You can install them in other locations, but then you need to set the GF_LIB_PATH environment variable:

    export GF_LIB_PATH=/usr/local/share/gf-3.2/lib

where /usr/local should be replaced with the path to the location where you unpacked the package.

Installing the latest release from source

GF is on Hackage, so the prodedure is fairly simple:

1. Install the Haskell Platform 2010.2.0.0 (July 2010).
2. cabal update
3. On Linux: install some C libraries from your Linux distribution (see below)
4. cabal install gf

You can also download the full source package from here: gf-3.2.tar.gz.

Notes

The above steps installs GF for a single user and does not require root privileges. The executables are put in $HOME/.cabal/bin, so it is a good idea to put a line in your .bash_profile to add that directory to you path:

    PATH=$HOME/.cabal/bin:$PATH

GF uses haskeline, which depends some non-Haskell libraries that won't be installed automatically by cabal, so you need to install them manually. Here is one way to do this:

• On Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install libghc6-terminfo-dev
• On Fedora: sudo yum install ghc-terminfo-devel

Older releases

• GF 3.1.6 (April 2010).
• GF 3.1 (December 2009).

Installing from the latest developer code

The first time:

    darcs get --lazy http://www.grammaticalframework.org/ GF
    cd GF
    cabal install

Subsequently:

    cd GF
    darcs pull -a
    cabal install

The above notes for installing from source apply also in this case.