Extract the distribution to the location of your choice.

> cd directory
> tar xvfz path-to-tarfile/proximity-4.3.tgz

where directory is the directory in which you want to install Proximity and path-to-tarfile is the relative path from the current directory to the directory containing the tar file. You must use a version of tar (e.g., GNU tar) that supports long filenames.

Change permissions for the shell scripts in proximity/bin to make them executable.

> cd proximity
> chmod -R a+x bin

[Optional] If you plan to work through the Proximity tutorial, set the environment variable PROX_HOME to your Proximity installation directory.

[Optional] Add $PROX_HOME/bin to PATH.

Extract the distribution to the location of your choice using WinZip or an equivalent application.

Create a new environment variable, PROX_HOME, and set it to the location where you installed Proximity. For example, if you installed Proximity in C:\Proximity, then you would set PROX_HOME = C:\Proximity\. Setting PROX_HOME is required for using the Proximity client on Windows. You may need to restart your command (DOS) window to make the new environment variable available.

[Optional] Add %PROX_HOME%\bin to PATH.