Yes it is a bit of a palava to get running but you can get it running straight out of eg ~/src/ with $ git clone https://https://github.com/penrose/penrose.git

Yes it is a bit of a palava to get running but you can get it running straight out of eg ~/src/ with $ git clone https://https://github.com/penrose/penrose.git https://https://github.com/penrose/penrose.git. Follow https://github.com/penrose/penrose/wiki/Building-and-running https://github.com/penrose/penrose/wiki/Building-and-running I use Arch Linux but I'm sure no one will hold that against me (package names like this): You will need a JDK (I installed jdk8-openjdk) to get a javac (needed when you run make in src). You may also need ghc for Haskell although the thing seems to install another one locally. I installed stack and then happy and then "stack build" finished OK. alias runpenrose=</very/long/path/in/home/bin/penrose>. Substitute "python -m http.server" for "python -m SimpleHTTPServer" because Python3 and the rest of the example works OK. Simples 8)