Chapter 2

Installation

AMC is designed for use under linux, but can also be used under Mac OSX and Windows (with a little more effort).

Under a standard Linux distribution

AMC is available, often under the name auto-multiple-choice, in the official repositories of many linux distributions.

You can also use certain repositories providing AMC, usually in a recent version.

Ubuntu

For Ubuntu, three PPAs are available to obtain a stable version for AMC, an up to date version and a cutting edge version very close to the development version from the git repository.

Debian Fedora Mageia OpenSUSE

The OpenSUSE build service allows an easy install on these distributions.

Fedora

Patrice Kadionik builds auto-multiple-choice packages in his Fedora repository.

To use this repository, use the following commands (here for Fedora 42, but this works for all versions from Fedora 23) as root:

dnf install http://kadionik.enseirb-matmeca.fr/fedora/eddy33-release-42.rpm

And install necessary packages:

dnf install evince libreoffice
dnf install auto-multiple-choice

Under Mac OSX

AMC can be install using one of the following systems:

Under Windows

You can use a virtualisation tool to run Ubuntu inside Windows, as WSL, or VirtualBox.

From the source code

AMC is free software. You can obtain its source code and compile it in two different ways:

  • from the Git repository:

    git clone https://gitlab.com/a10684/auto-multiple-choice.git
cd auto-multiple-choice
make version_files
make
sudo make install

  • from a tarball:

    wget https://download.auto-multiple-choice.net/auto-multiple-choice_current_dist.tar.gz
tar xzf auto-multiple-choice_current_dist.tar.gz
cd auto-multiple-choice-*
make
sudo make install