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Yup, another geek tells you how to install Hercules mainframe emulator.

 Yet another geek installs the Hercules mainframe emulator and thinks he'll be another Moshix. Fair enough. So what. Either you want to read this or you don't.

Ok, supposing you do and you've followed my advice and created a new user on your Linux server other than root to install it into, here's all you need to do. Log in as that new user, do -

 $ sudo apt install hercules  

Give sudo your password and that's all you have to do. Then test it by  $ hercules 

If it installed properly, she'll run through the paces but not actually start because there's no mainframe emulated OS installed yet. For that, you have to install MVS 3.8j.





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