chapter06/gzip-inst.xml


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<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>