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On Windows (XP or version 7 or later), please extract simphone.exe by
dragging it out of the downloaded .zip file and dropping it to your
"Desktop" or any other convenient location and then click the extracted
'''simphone.exe''' to use it.

On Mac OS (version 10.6 or later), place the downloaded .zip file to any
convenient location and then click on it to unpack simphone.app.
You can then use Simphone by clicking the unpacked simphone.app.

On GNU/Linux x64, please unpack the downloaded .zip file to your home
directory or any convenient location. You can then start the unpacked
simphone executable by clicking it or from the command line
If you use FreeBSD or another unix-like system, or if the GNU/Linux .zip
file does not work for you (for example, because your computer is not
x64), you can use the generic unix installer as described below.

Before you begin, please make sure that your home directory has at least
a couple of gigabytes of free disk space and the system has at least 512
megabytes of free memory (one gigabyte is recommended).

Place the downloaded unix installer into your home directory, and type
the following commands from the "shell" prompt (also known as a

cd
gzip -df simphone_installer.shar.gz
sh ./simphone_installer.shar

This process may take a very long time (depending on the speed of your
computer and eventually of your internet connection), so please do not
interrupt it while working (you can use the computer to do other tasks
in the mean time).

A few tools and libraries are needed in order to create a Simphone unix
executable. If some of them are not found, the installer will try to
fetch them automatically from the internet servers of your unix system
for you. If you have run the installer as non-root, it will try to
prompt you for your password or for the root password (inside the
"Terminal" application) at that point. This usually happens only the
first time you run the installer; when it does, please make sure you are
connected to the internet and either type the required password or
re-run the installer as root.

At the end of the process, the installer will explicitly report either
SUCCESS or FAILURE; in case of success, it will have created
simphone (the executable file) inside the current directory (your
home directory). You can then proceed to use simphone by clicking it, or
you can copy it to another location or to another similar unix system
and use it from there.