Really Small Message Broker

Operating systems:

• Ubuntu Linux 7.10 (Gutsy), 8.04 (Hardy) and above
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
• Windows XP
• Unslung (Linksys NSLU2)
• Arcom Embedded Linux (Arcom Viper)
• Linux on IBM System z
• Apple Mac OS X Leopard
• Crossbow Stargate

1. Download the zip file.
2. Extract the zip file to a location on your computer (for example, C:\Program Files\broker or /home/laura/broker).
3. On Windows, install Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package, if it is not already installed.

Starting the broker on Windows: In the folder where you installed the broker, double-click broker.exe.

Starting the broker on Linux:

1. In a terminal, change to the directory where you installed the broker (for example: cd /home/laura/broker).
2. Enter the appropriate command for your platform. For example, on Ubuntu, type the following:
   
   ./broker.ubuntu
   
   Or, in order to run the broker in the background so that it will continue to run when you log out of the session, enter the following command:
   
   nohup ./broker.ubuntu >> /dev/null &