How to install?

Manual installation on Windows

1. Make sure you have at least Java 8 installed
2. Download your chosen Quail version
3. Place qre.jar and/or qdk.jar into some folder on your computer
4. Create an environment variable called QUAIL_HOME and set it to that folder
5. Place the following contents into file at C:\Windows\quail.bat

   @echo off
   if exist "%QUAIL_HOME%\jre\jdk1.8.0_402\bin\java.exe" (
       "%QUAIL_HOME%\jre\jdk1.8.0_402\bin\java.exe" -jar "%QUAIL_HOME%\qre.jar" %*
   )
   if not exist "%QUAIL_HOME%\jre\jdk1.8.0_402\bin\java.exe" (
       java -jar "%QUAIL_HOME%\qre.jar" %*
   )

6. Place the following contents into file at C:\Windows\quail-qdk.bat

   @echo off
   if exist "%QUAIL_HOME%\jre\jdk1.8.0_402\bin\java.exe" (
   "%QUAIL_HOME%\jre\jdk1.8.0_402\bin\java.exe" -jar "%QUAIL_HOME%\qdk.jar" %*
   )
   if not exist "%QUAIL_HOME%\jre\jdk1.8.0_402\bin\java.exe" (
   java -jar "%QUAIL_HOME%\qdk.jar" %*
   )

7. Now you can access Quail with quail and quail-qdk commands

Manual installation on Linux

1. Make sure you have at least Java 8 installed
2. Download your chosen Quail version
3. Place qre.jar and/or qdk.jar into /bin/quail-jars/
4. Place the following contents into file at /bin/quail

   #!/bin/bash
   java -jar /bin/quail-jars/qre.jar $@

5. Place the following contents into file at /bin/quail-qdk

   #!/bin/bash
   java -jar /bin/quail-jars/qdk.jar $@

6. Run

   sudo chmod +x /bin/quail
   sudo chmod +x /bin/quail-qdk

7. Now you can access Quail with quail and quail-qdk commands