Downloads

The latest release of yorick is 1.6.02; the source code including all the latest patches as a gzipped tar file, extension .tgz.

Note that the UNIX gzip and tar archiving programs are available without charge for both MS Windows (PowerArchiver 6.1) and MacOS 8 or 9 ( MacGzip , suntar). On a UNIX platform, you can unpack a .tgz file with a command like this:

     gzip -dc yorick-1.6.02.tgz | tar xvf -

Source distributions

After you unpack the source distribution, detailed build instructions for UNIX/Linux/MacOSX are contained in the file yorick-1.6/README. For MS Windows, look in the yorick-1.6/win directory.

Yorick configures itself and compiles on essentially every modern flavor of UNIX, including Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS X, IBM AIX, Sun Solaris, Compaq OSF, SGI Irix, and HPUX. The only requirements are an ANSI C compiler (such as gcc) and the X Window System (such as XFree86). Additionally, as of 1.5.07, yorick compiles under MSVC++ on MS Windows machines.

For MacOS X, install X11 and use the UNIX version of yorick, or install yorick through fink (maintained by Sebastien Maret).

Latest Binary distributions

The following are relocatable distributions of the latest yorick binaries. Basically, gunzip and untar the file, and place it wherever convenient. Do not change the location of the yorick executable in the directory tree.

Older Binary distributions

Linux, UNIX, and MacOS X

Here is a directory where various other files relating to Linux, UNIX, and MacOS X yorick releases are archived. Note that there is a perl script called rpm2cpio which allows you to unpack rpm files on any UNIX platform. Similarly, .deb files may be unpacked anywhere using the UNIX ar utility.

The binary distributions include complete documentation in the Y_SITE/doc directory. However, if you want to install this complete website locally with a package manager, you can use one of these complete documentation distributions:

MS Windows 9x, NT, 2000, XP?

MacIntosh MacOS 8 or 9

For MacIntosh MacOS 8 or 9, the latest functioning release is 1.4.

Other documentation

The binary distributions and the complete documentation distributions already contain PDF versions of the manual and quick reference cards. If you want to study them before you get the full packages, here they are:

Yorick is open source software, copyright of the Regents of the University of California.