In general, you download the binary to a location and then type: 
  tar -zxf binaryname.tgz
     this creates a directory called "mnt"
     in "mnt" there is a directory which is the sysname.
     for instance, you'll see mnt/fedora5 so the sysname is fedora5
  export AXIOM=`pwd`/mnt/(sysname)
  export PATH=$AXIOM/bin:$PATH
  axiom
You do not need the source code to run Axiom. Everything is in the binary. If you do choose to build from the sources you download the source and then type: 
  tar -zxf sourcename.tgz
    this creates a directory called "silver"
    the sysname is given in the column head of the following table
  cd silver
  export AXIOM=`pwd`/mnt/(sysname)
  export PATH=$AXIOM/bin:$PATH
  make
Note that if the make fails on some systems it may be due to the security setup. As root you can try: 
 echo 0 >/proc/sys/kernel/exec-shield
 echo 0 >/proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
Both of these settings have caused build problems.
BINARIES redhat7.2 redhat9 ubuntu windows macosxppc fedora5 fedora6 fedora8 debian freebsd
Sept 2007
Nov 2007 src bin src bin src bin
Silver