The Bash package contains the Bourne-Again SHell. &buildtime; &bash-time; &diskspace; &bash-compsize; &aa-bash-down; &aa-bash-dep;   Bash has a number of bugs in it that cause it to not behave the way it is expected at times. Fix this behaviour with the following patch: patch -Np1 -i ../&bash-patch; Now prepare Bash for compilation: ./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin Compile the package: make To have the results tested, issue: make tests. Install the package: make install And reload the newly compiled bash program: exec /bin/bash --login +h &aa-bash-shortdesc; &aa-bash-desc;