Installation

QUAIL is written in Java and therefore only needs a Java runtime environment to be executed. Simply unzip the package at the desired location.

Requirements

QUAIL is compatible with Java 7 and 8. The system must be configured such that the Java Runtime Environment is in the console path.
The tool distribution packages include:

  • The ANTLRv3 library for compiling QUAIL programs.
  • The Commons Math library for arbitrary precision arithmetic.

In order to print Markov chains in the desired image format it requires the Graphviz dot tool available at: http://graphviz.org/

Binary package

Source package

Configuration file

The program reads a configuration file (by default quail.config in the root directory of the program). This file has the following option:

  • DOT=pathConfigure the location of Graphviz dot program. By default /usr/bin/dot on Linux systems.

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