Coursera compiler Set up environment and Run first program

Environment, Ubuntu 14.04

set up

1. <code>sudo apt-get install flex bison build-essential csh openjdk-6-jdk libxaw7-dev libc6-i386</code>

2. Make the /usr/class directory

<code>sudo mkdir /usr/class</code>

3. Make the directory owned by you

<code>sudo chown $USER /usr/class</code>

4. Go to /usr/class and download the tarball

<code>cd /usr/class</code>

<code>wget</code>

5. Untar

<code>tar -xf student-dist.tar.gz</code>

6. If you want things exactly like the VMs:

　　Add a symlink to your home directory

　　<code>ln -s /usr/class/cs143/cool ~/cool</code>

7. Add the bin directory to your $PATH environment variable. If you are using

bash, add to your .profile (or .bash_profile, .bashrc etc. depending on your

configuration; note that in Ubuntu have to log out and back in for this to take

effect):

vim ~/.bashrc and append

<code>PATH=/usr/class/cs143/cool/bin:$PATH</code>

8. you may also need to do this

<code>sudo apt-get install xfonts-75dpi xfonts-100dpi</code>

<code>xset +fp /usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi</code>