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For those of you running a deb-packaged style Linux distribution, like Debian and Ubuntu, Tol-Project offers the possibility to install Tol from its own Debian packages repository.

In order to install and use the Tol binary distribution, you will need several other software packages, some of them are provided by your distribution and the rest are provided by the Tol-Project Debian repository.

1. The Repository

The repository contains the following packages under main section:

tol1.1.6 toltcl1.1.6 tolbase1.1.6 libtol1.1.6 libtol1.1.6-dev
tol1.1.5 toltcl1.1.5 tolbase1.1.5 libtol1.1.5 libtol1.1.5-dev
tolpgsql0 tolmysql0 tolodbc0
ziparch libziparch0 libziparch0-dev
tclodbc libtkdnd2.0 mkwidgets1.3
libsuitesparse libsuitesparse-dev


This section will guide you through the general configuration and installation of TOL on Linux systems. There are several ways to install TOL for the Linux platform, either with a compile and configure process, or through various pre-packaged methods. This section is mainly focused around the process of compiling and configuring TOL and their Database Drivers (TOL-DBD).

Prerequisite software for compiling TOL:

• Both, the GNU C and the GNU C++ Compiler
• The GNU Make
• The GNU Scientific Library
• The SuiteSparse package (here available)
• The BZip2 File Compressor Library
• The ZipArchive Library (here available)

Prerequisite software for compiling the TOL Database Drivers:

• The GNU C Compiler
• The UnixODBC Client Access
• The MySQL C Client Access
• The PostgreSQL C Client Access

1. GNU C, C++, and Make