Packages

If for some reason none of the following binaries work, you can build Lambda from source. This will also result in executables optimized for your specific platform.

Downstream packages

On the following operating systems, there are distribution packages of Lambda that you can install as the root user or ask your administrator to install:

Distribution	package name	command to install
Ubuntu, Debian, MINT, Devuan...	lambda-align2	sudo apt install lambda-align2

Lambda1 is available is lambda-align.

Please check if the downstream version is up-to-date and use an upstream package instead if it is newer!

Upstream packages

We provide provide our official ("upstream") packages at the GitHub releases page:

https://github.com/seqan/lambda/releases

If you don't know how to chose the right download, continue reading!

The file names have the following structure:

lambda-$VERSION-$OS-$ARCH.$EXT

variable	explanation
$VERSION	usually just take the newest one! Some releases are marked as pre-releases, though, so if you want to be on the safe side, take the "Latest release"
$OS	one of Linux, FreeBSD and Darwin (== macOS). Pick your operating system :)
$ARCH	x86_64 (other platforms are currently not supported)
$EXT	see below

GNU/Linux

Distribution	extension
Ubuntu, Debian, MINT, Devuan...	.deb
RedHat, CentOS, Fedora...	.rpm
works everywhere	.tar.xz

If you have administrator privileges, you can install the system specific packages, otherwise just unzip the generic tarball with tar xf lambda-x.y.z-Linux-*.tar.xz.

The generic Linux packages are compiled on a special system to support the largest subset of all available (and still supported versions) out there.

macOS

TODO

FreeBSD

TODO