4.1 Software and hardware requirements

An overview of system requirements is provided in System requirements on Linux. The sections that follow discuss any relevant details.

System requirements on Linux
Hardware Requirements	Software Requirements
168MB of disk space for Enterprise Edition (32-bit) plus documentation	Any distribution with glibc 2.6 or later for x86/x86_64 and 2.17 or later for ARM/ARM64
182MB of disk space for Enterprise Edition (64-bit) plus documentation	GTK+ 2 (version 2.4 or higher) to run the GTK+ GUI. Open Motif 2.2.x or 2.3.x and Imlib2 1.4.3 or later to run the deprecated Motif GUI
Any modern machine is likely to have sufficient RAM to run LispWorks as distributed.	Firefox or Opera web browser for viewing on-line documentation

4.1.1 GUI libraries

LispWorks 8.0 for Linux requires that the X11 release 6 (or higher) is installed. It also requires that either GTK+ or Open Motif with Imlib2 are installed.

The remainder of this section contains the details for each of these distinct GUI options.

4.1.1.1 GTK+

In order for the LispWorks IDE to run "out of the box", GTK+ must be installed on the target machine.

GTK+ 2 (version 2.4 or higher) is required.

4.1.1.2 Motif

Open Motif version 2.2 or 2.3 is required to run LispWorks with the Motif GUI.

Download and install Open Motif 2.2.x or 2.3.x from your Linux distribution or from www.motifzone.net . Your systems administrator may be able to help if you do not know how to do this.

You will also need Imlib2 version 1.4.3 or later. Install this from your Linux distribution.

Note: You should be able to run the LispWorks 8.0 Motif GUI and LispWorks 7.x, LispWorks 6.x or LispWorks 5.x simultaneously with Open Motif installed.

4.1.2 Disk requirements

To install without documentation and optional modules, 32-bit LispWorks requires about 45MB and 64-bit LispWorks requires about 60MB. Installing the documentation adds about 110MB and the optional modules about 15MB. A full installation of the 64-bit Enterprise Edition with all documentation and optional modules requires about 185MB.

The documentation includes printable PDF format manuals. You may delete any of these that you do not need. They are available at www.lispworks.com/documentation in any case, and the same manuals are also available there in PostScript format.