Installing Phon

Download required fronts from https://www.phon.ca/downloads/ipafonts.zip.

Download the newest .exe installer file from the releases page.

Note: Phon 3.0+ only supports 64-bit operating systems.

Download the newest .dmg file from the releases page. After opening the disk image, drag Phon into your Applications folder.

First, install the newest version of Java 10 using packages provided by linuxuprising.

Install java 10:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:linuxuprising/java
sudo apt update
sudo apt install oracle-java10-installer

Install vlc:

sudo apt install vlc

Download the newest .deb from the releases page and install using dpkg.

sudo dpkg -i Phon_linux_<version>.deb

To uninstall Phon:

sudo dpkg --remove phon

On other *nix systems install java9+ and VLC then use the .sh installer from the releases page.

e.g.,

chmod u+x Phon_unix_<version>.sh
./Phon_unix_<version>.sh

or use sudo if installing for all users

sudo ./Phon_unix_<version>.sh