instructions will help you install the distribution in a method
appropriate for your system.
-(If you happen to be using Debian or Ubuntu, you can also obtain and
-install binaries with the command @samp{sudo apt-get install
-intercal}, making the rest of this chapter redundant. If you do this,
-use Debian's bug tracker to report bugs, rather than reporting them
-directly to the maintainers.)
-
@menu
* Obtaining:: How to get a @cic{} distribution to install
* Unpacking:: What to do with the distribution file
modify it, you may also need @samp{autoconf}, @samp{automake},
@samp{bison}, and @samp{flex}. For debugging help, you may also want
@samp{gdb}, and to recompile the documentation, you may need
-@samp{groff}, @samp{tetex-bin}, @samp{texinfo}, and @samp{tidy}. Of
-course, if @ical{} ever (the author of this sentence was going to
-write something like ``becomes popular, someone will probably package
-up a compiler for Debian or Ubuntu anyway'', but at that point on a
-whim did an Ubuntu package search for 'intercal' and actually came up
-with two results, which look suspiciously like @cic{} and @clcic{},
-later confirming this. The author was vaguely aware that there was a
-@clcic{} package floating around, but was unaware of the @cic{}
-package, and as a result was too surprised to finish the sentence.)
+@samp{groff}, @samp{texlive}, @samp{texinfo}, and @samp{tidy}.
If you're trying to do something unusual, you probably want to set some
of the settings yourself rather than letting the compilation process