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authorAlex Gronenwoud <alex@linuxfromscratch.org>2003-11-01 22:31:50 +0000
committerAlex Gronenwoud <alex@linuxfromscratch.org>2003-11-01 22:31:50 +0000
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Merging caption and installation sections for all packages in chapters 5 and 6.
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@@ -7,6 +7,41 @@ Estimated required disk space: &gzip-compsize;</screen>
&aa-gzip-shortdesc;
&aa-gzip-dep;
-&c6-gzip-inst;
+
+<sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>
+
+<sect2>
+<title>Installation of Gzip</title>
+
+<para>Prepare Gzip for compilation:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
+
+<para>The gzexe program has the location of the gzip binary hard-wired into
+it. Because we later change the location of this binary, the following
+command will place the new location into the gzexe binary.</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>cp gzexe.in{,.backup}
+sed 's%"BINDIR"%/bin%' gzexe.in.backup &gt; gzexe.in</userinput></screen>
+
+<para>Compile the package:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
+
+<para>Install the package:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
+
+<para>And move the programs to the <filename
+class="directory">/bin</filename> directory:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>mv /usr/bin/gzip /bin
+rm /usr/bin/{gunzip,zcat}
+ln -s gzip /bin/gunzip
+ln -s gzip /bin/zcat
+ln -s gunzip /bin/uncompress</userinput></screen>
+
+</sect2>
</sect1>
+