Alliance VLSI CAD System is free software. Binaries, source code and cells libraries are freely available under the GNU General Public License (GPL). You are welcome to use the software package even for commercial designs without any fee. You are kindly requested to mention : "Designed with Alliance © LIP6, Université Pierre et Marie Curie"

Alliance quick install intructions

Binary packages are avalaibles for the following REDHAT based distributions:

• RHEL 5 (RedHat Enterprise Linux 5).
• Scientific Linux 5.
• CentOS 5
• Fedora

Note:
	For Fedora distributions, Alliance packages are in the main repository, so the step one below could be skipped.

Alliance packages are distributeds as part of the Fedora Electronic Lab (FEL), and as such as been backported into the EPEL repository (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux). The install procedure is as follow:

1. Enable the EPEL repository: (instructions borrowed from https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/)

   All commands must be executed as root.

   Install the package enabling the repository
   $ rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-3.noarch.rpm

   Note:
   	This package install a lone file /etc/yum.repo.d/epel.repo which suffice to enable the repository.

2. Install the Alliance packages:
   $ yum install alliance alliance-libs alliance-doc

   That'all folks. Alliance is ready to uses.

Important:
	With the packaged version of Alliance, files and directories are not at the same places as in the SOC department. They have been made compliant with the FHS. binaries /usr/lib/alliance/bin cell libraries /usr/share/alliance/cells man pages /usr/share/alliance/man tutorials & examples /usr/share/doc/alliance-5.0/ Environment variables should be automatically positionneds.