Here is a sketch outline of how to get started with SYMPHONY in Unix. This is basically the same information contained in the README file that comes with the distribution and will lead you through the steps required to compile the sample application, a VRP and TSP solver. Because SYMPHONY is intended to run over nonhomogeneous networks of workstations, installation is not fully automated, but requires the user to make minor edits to the makefile. With this setup, compilation for multiple architectures and configurations can be done in a single directory without reconfiguring or ``cleaning.'' This is convenient on nonhomogeneous networks, but it means that you might need to know a little about your computing environment in order to make SYMPHONY compile. For the casual user, this is limited to editing providing some path names. There may be some complaints from the compiler because of missing function prototypes, etc.