# Installation

Installation follows standard GNU autoconfigure installation procedures. See the file INSTALL for further details.

More detailed installation instructions and tricks can be found in FreeLing web page and discussion forums.

The installation consists of a few basic steps:

- Decompress the FreeLing-X.X.tgz package in a temporary subdirectory.
- Issue the commands:
  `./configure
  make
  make install
  `

The last command may be issued as root.

You may control the installation defaults providing appropriate parametres to the `./configure` script. The command:
`./configure -help`

will provide help about installation options (e.g. non-default installation directory, non standard locations for required libraries, etc.)

The INSTALL file provides more information on standard installation procedures.