Installing WHIZARD: This file is an abridged version of the corresponding chapter of the manual. SOURCES WHIZARD is Free Software and the sources can be obtained from http://www-ttp.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de/Progdata/whizard The command gzip -cd whizard.tgz | tar xf - will unpack the sources in the current working directory. PREREQUISITES - GNU Make - Perl 5 - Fortran 90/95 - C - O'Mega: This program for automatic matrix element generation is available from http://heplix.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de/~ohl/omega/ or from ftp://heplix.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de/pub/ohl/omega For the compilation of O'Mega you need Objective Caml: http://pauillac.inria.fr/ocaml/ CONFIGURATION Running the configure script ./configure will check the availability of programs and utilities and generate the Makefiles appropriate for the host system. The further procedure (generating process matrix elements and compiling and running the program) is described in the manual.