Sunday, October 03, 2010

Installing the F# PowerPack on Linux / Mono

The F# PowerPack is an open source collection of libraries provided by the Microsoft F# team on top of the standard distribution. It can be found here. It is recommended to always install the F# PowerPack when using F#.
1. Download the F# PowerPack ZIP-file from CodePlex
2. Go to your F# installation location (and switch to root if necessary)
~> cd /usr/local/lib/FSharp-2.0.0.0/bin/
host:/usr/local/lib/FSharp-2.0.0.0/bin> su
Password:
host:/usr/local/lib/FSharp-2.0.0.0/bin #
3. Unzip the file

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