Hercules Studio is a GUI front-end to the Hercules mainframe Emulator on Linux. As such - it requires the actual emulator to be installed and operational in order for Hercules Studio to be functional.

To download Hercules Studio, use one of the links bellow.

To discuss Hercules Studio, please use the Hercules Studio discussion group at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/hercstudio/

Installing Hercules Studio

In some distributions Hercules Studio can be obtained using the distribution's package management system. Distributions that already include Hercules Studio are:

• Fedora 10, 11, 12
• Slackware 12.0 see here: http://www.nielshorn.net/slackware/slack_pkg.php
• Other distributions - see bellow

If your distribution does not yet provide Hercules Studio package you can download the appropriate package from one of the links bellow, or build Hercules Studio from source.

Links to the stable version

Hercules Studio 1.1.0 in RPM 64-bit format
(suitable for 64-bit RedHat, Fedora, SUSE, openSUSE distributions)

Hercules Studio 1.1.0 in Deb 64-bit format
(suitable for 64-bit Debian, Ubuntu)

Hercules Studio 1.1.0 in RPM 32-bit format
(suitable for 32-bit RedHat, Fedora, SUSE, openSUSE distributions)

Hercules Studio 1.1.0 in Deb 32-bit format
(suitable for 32-bit Debian, Ubuntu)

Source tarball: herculesstudio-1.1.0-src.tar.gz
(The INSTALL file located in the source root directory contains complete instructions on building and installing Hercules Studio from source)

Installation instructions for the packages above

For RPM packages:

$ rpm -i <filename>

For Deb packages:

$ dpkg -i <filename>

Once installed, start the program from the main menu at /applications/system-tools/, or by typing "HerculesStudio" at the shell prompt.

Prerequisites

1. Hercules configuration

Hercules should be configured and built to support a gui (this is not the default on Linux):

2. Qt environment

Hercules Studio is based on the Qt framework. You can skip this if you use KDE window manager (which is also based on Qt).

Under RedHat/Fedora you will need to install package qt-x11 using the command:

On Debian-based systems (like Ubuntu) issue the following command:

Source repository:

svn co https://hercstudio.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/hercstudio/trunk/HerculesStudio

The INSTALL file located in the source root directory contains complete instructions on building and installing Hercules Studio from source.