First, you'll want to make sure that you have the basic developer tools like gcc installed.

On Gentoo, OpenDylan is available via the package system, so go ahead and install it that way. Packages for other operating systems are coming in the future and help is appreciated.

Otherwise, download and install a build of OpenDylan for your operating system. Put OpenDylan in a directory of its own, like /opt/opendylan-2012.1 .

Make sure that the bin directory under the installation path is on your PATH . You can do this by placing a line in your .bashrc in your home directory like this:

export PATH=/opt/opendylan-2012.1/bin:$PATH

You can enter that command in your current shell as well.