Linux

Download the RPM (the RPM Package Manager) package of Columba. You have to become root user in order to be able to install Columba. Enter

rpm -Uvh columba-1.0_M2-0.rpm

in your favourite shell. This will install Columba in /opt/columba and will create a symbolic link in /usr/bin/columba.

The RPM package does not have any dependency checking built-in. It therefor won't check if you installed a matching Java RPM.