Installation instructions

• Install the Haskell tool stack. The recommended way is by simply downloading a binary for your platform.
• Download the latest release of the rarecoal repository, or clone it directly via git clone https://github.com/stschiff/rarecoal.git. In the latter case you can also easily update the repository by executing git pull within the directory.
• cd into the downloaded folder.
• Run stack build. This will download all the dependencies, including the Haskell Compiler, and may take a while. You may get an error about missing software such as pkg-config, or gsl, which then need to be installed using your standard package manager, such as apt-get on Linux or brew on a Mac. As soon as you have installed those, just run stack build again to continue where you left before the error.
• After building, the executables are buried relatively deep in the hidden .stack-work directory within the rarecoal directory. You can either find them in there or simply run stack install to copy the executables into “~/.local/bin”. You should then add this directory to your path.
• Download the rarecoal-tools repository and install it using stack build and stack install exactly as described above for the rarecoal repository.