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<sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>

<sect2>
<title>Installation of Bzip2</title>

<para>Compile the package:</para>
<para><screen><userinput>
make -f Makefile-libbz2_so &amp;&amp;
make
</userinput></screen></para>

<para>And finish off installing the package:</para>

<para><screen><userinput>
make install</userinput></screen></para>

<para>Copy the Bzip2 binary into the /bin directory, make some
  neccessary symbolic links and clean up.</para>

<para><screen><userinput>
cp bzip2-shared /bin/bzip2 &amp;&amp;
cp -a libbz2.so* /lib &amp;&amp;
ln -s ../../lib/libbz2.so.1.0 /usr/lib/libbz2.so &amp;&amp;
rm /usr/bin/{bunzip2,bzcat,bzip2} &amp;&amp;
mv /usr/bin/{bzip2recover,bzless,bzmore} /bin &amp;&amp;
ln -s bzip2 /bin/bunzip2 &amp;&amp;
ln -s bzip2 /bin/bzcat
</userinput></screen></para>

</sect2>

<sect2>
<title>Command explanations</title>

<para><userinput>make -f Makefile-libbz2_so:</userinput> This will cause bzip2
to be built using a different Makefile file, in this case the
Makefile-libbz2_so file, which creates a dynamic libbz2.so library and
links the bzip2 utilities against it.</para>

</sect2>