We recommend that you install EMBOSS on a platform known to support it.
It is known to work on:
CentOS
Debian
Fedora
HPUX11/IA64
HP Integrity Series
MacOSX
Mandriva
NetBSD
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Slackware
SLES
SuSE
Tru64
Ubuntu / Kubuntu
It is reported to work on:
FreeBSD
OSF
SuSE-PPC
Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 and 4.0 (PPC processor)
It will probably work on many other machines and operating systems - if you know of one not listed here, please let us know.