Quick Linux Install Guide for AntConc
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Laurence Anthony, Ph.D.
Center for English Language Education in Science and Engineering
School of Science and Engineering
Waseda University
3-4-1 Okubo, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan
January 26, 2014
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Installing AntConc on Linux is simple, especially if you use a modern GUI-based
system like Linux Mint (my favorite Linux distribution).

AntConc is an executble. So, just set the permissions to run executables and
then double click to launch the program.

In Linux Mint (and other Gnome/KDE-based distributions), just right click on
the AntConc executable to view its properties. There, select the permissions
option and allow the file to run as an executable.
(In Linux Mint 10, right click on the executable, select "Properties",
then, click on the "Permission" tab, and finally click the box next to
"Allow executing file as program")

While in the properties window, you can also click on the basic settings, and
drop the AntConc .png file onto the icon window. Then, the icon will be changed
to the default AntConc icon.
(In Linux Mint 10 click the "Basic" tab in the Permissions windows, and drop the
.png file on the icon window in the top left).

On command-line based versions, you will need to set the permissions with a
chmod command.

Use the following steps:
1) Navigate to the folder where the AntConc executable is located. For example,
if you copied the executable to the desktop, type the following:
>cd desktop

2) Change the permissions of the executable using the command:
>sudo chmod +x <name of antconc executable>

For example, for the executable antconc3.2.4u use:
>sudo chmod +x antconc3.2.4u

3) To add the .png as the icon to the executable, you'll have to search on the
Internet! Sorry! It seems the command changes depending on the Linux setup.
(But in the graphical interface with Linux Mint, it's really easy!)


Note for users of 64-bit Linux users (with thanks to Markus Killer and Gian Paolo Renello for the tips):
AntConc is a 32-bit application. To run it, the minimal requirements are the following:
For archlinux users, install lib32-libxft:
sudo pacman -S lib32-libxft)
For *buntu users, install ibx11-6:i386, libxss1:i386, and libxft2:i386:
sudo apt-get install libx11-6:i386 libxss1:i386 libxft2:i386

That's it!

Laurence.
