2.5 Extract the Daisy download

Extract the Daisy download. On Linux/Unix you can extract the .tar.gz file as follows:

tar xvzf daisy-<version>.tar.gz

On non-Linux unixes, use the GNU tar version if you experience problems extracting.

On Windows, use the .zip download, which you can extract using a tool like WinZip.

Make sure that wherever you extract the download, none of the parent directories contains spaces in their names. For example, on Windows, do not extract Daisy inside your c:\Program Files directory.

After extraction, you will get a directory called daisy-<version>. This directory is what we will call from now on the DAISY_HOME directory. You may set a global environment variable pointing to that location, or you can do it each time in the command prompt when needed.