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Installation Instructions

Copyright (C) 1994-1996, 1999-2002, 2004-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright notice and this notice are preserved. This file is offered as-is, without warranty of any kind.

Basic Installation

Briefly, the shell commands make; make install should build, and install this package.

The simplest way to compile this package is:

  1. cd to the directory containing the package's source code and type make package to compile the package.

  2. Optionally, type make test to run any self-tests that come with the package, generally using the just-built uninstalled binaries.

  3. Type make install to install the programs and any data files and documentation. When installing into a prefix owned by root, it is recommended that the package be configured and built as a regular user, and only the make install phase executed with root privileges.

  4. Optionally, type make installtest to repeat any self-tests, but this time using the binaries in their final installed location. This target does not install anything. Running this target as a regular user, particularly if the prior make install required root privileges, verifies that the installation completed correctly.

  5. You can remove the program binaries and object files from the source code directory by typing make clean. To also remove all genereted fils type make mrproper.

Installation Names

By default, make install installs the package's commands under /usr/bin, share files under /usr/share, etc.