The Raspberry Pi project has transformed educational computing every since the release of the first Model B back in 2012.

I am using Kevin Cole's APPENDIX B: SETTING UP LINUX FOR ALTAIR 8800 as a guide, and given that some of my students will need to compile C source on their school issued MacBooks without admin rights, I wanted to see if I could deploy it into $HOME/.local. I found what looks to be an excellent guide in Building and Installing Software in $HOME.

With those two resources and an email from Kevin instructing me how to modify the Makefile as guides, I did the following:

1. Installed the required debian pages with:

   $ sudo apt install texlive minicom gkermit simh most
   

2. Downloaded asl-current.tar.gz and moved it to a Resources directory with:

   $ mv ~/Downloads/asl-current.tar.gz ~/Resourses/
   

3. Extracted the archive:

   $ tar xzvf asl-current.tar.gz
   $ cd asl-current
   $ cp -v Makefile.def-samples/Makefile.def-x86_64-unknown-linux Makefile.def
   

4. Edited the Makefile.def file, commenting out the following lines:

   #BINDIR = /usr/local/bin
   #INCDIR = /usr/local/include/asl
   #MANDIR = /usr/local/man
   #LIBDIR = /usr/local/lib/asl
   #DOCDIR = /usr/local/doc/asl
   

   and replacing them with:

   BINDIR = $(HOME)/.local/bin
   LIBDIR = $(HOME)/.local/lib/asl
   MANDIR = $(HOME)/.local/share/man
   INCDIR = $(HOME)/.local/include/asl
   DOCDIR = $(HOME)/Documents/asl
   

5. Compiled and locally installed the code:

   $ make
   $ make test
   $ make docs
   $ make install
   

6. Removed the broken German documentation:

   $ rm ~/Documents/asl/as_DE.*