Download

Download the skam distribution from Sourceforge (either released file, or latest bleeding edge version from cvs)

You will need to download and install SWI-Prolog

Install skam

untar the skam directory and place it where you like; add skam/bin to your path; eg

cd ~/MyApps
tar -zxvf skam.tar.gz
setenv PATH "$PATH:$HOME/MyApps/skam/bin"
	    

You're now ready to use skam!

Installing biomake

biomake is a wrapper for skam, and a collection of utilities. To use it, add skam/bio/bin to your path

setenv PATH "$PATH:$HOME/MyApps/skam/bin"
	    

And run the "biomake" command without any arguments, to set it up as above

Editing skam files in emacs or xemacs

You can edit skam files using any text editor; if you use emacs or xemacs, you may wish to use prolog mode. Download prolog mode from http://turing.ubishops.ca/home/bruda/emacs-prolog/index.html then add this to your emacs customisation file:

(autoload 'run-prolog "prolog" "Start a Prolog sub-process." t)
(autoload 'prolog-mode "prolog" "Major mode for editing Prolog programs." t)
(setq prolog-system 'swi)
(setq auto-mode-alist (append '(("\\.P$" . prolog-mode)
                                ("\\.skm$" . prolog-mode))
                              auto-mode-alist))