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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN"
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| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [
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| 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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| 6 |
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| 7 | <!ENTITY gdbm-download-http "http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gdbm/gdbm-&gdbm-version;.tar.gz">
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| 8 | <!ENTITY gdbm-download-ftp "ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gdbm/gdbm-&gdbm-version;.tar.gz">
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| 9 | <!ENTITY gdbm-size "223 KB">
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| 10 | <!ENTITY gdbm-buildsize "4.1 MB">
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| 11 | <!ENTITY gdbm-time "0.08 SBU">
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| 12 |
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| 13 | ]>
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| 14 |
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[ca89a835] | 15 | <sect1 id="gdbm" xreflabel="GDBM-&gdbm-version;">
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[7f72cbf] | 16 | <?dbhtml filename="gdbm.html"?>
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[ca89a835] | 17 | <title>GDBM-&gdbm-version;</title>
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[777e407] | 18 |
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[52d29f7] | 19 | <sect2>
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| 20 | <title>Introduction to <application><acronym>GDBM</acronym></application></title>
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| 21 |
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| 22 | <para>The <application><acronym>GDBM</acronym></application> package
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| 23 | contains the <acronym>GNU</acronym> Database Manager. This
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| 24 | is a disk file format database which stores key/data-pairs in single
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| 25 | files. The actual data of any record being stored is indexed by a unique
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| 26 | key, which can be retrieved in less time than if it was stored in a text
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| 27 | file.</para>
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| 28 |
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| 29 | <sect3><title>Package information</title>
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| 30 | <itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
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| 31 | <listitem><para>Download (HTTP): <ulink
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| 32 | url="&gdbm-download-http;"/></para></listitem>
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| 33 | <listitem><para>Download (FTP): <ulink
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| 34 | url="&gdbm-download-ftp;"/></para></listitem>
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| 35 | <listitem><para>Download size: &gdbm-size;</para></listitem>
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| 36 | <listitem><para>Estimated Disk space required:
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| 37 | &gdbm-buildsize;</para></listitem>
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| 38 | <listitem><para>Estimated build time:
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| 39 | &gdbm-time;</para></listitem></itemizedlist>
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| 40 | </sect3>
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| 41 |
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| 42 |
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| 43 | </sect2>
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| 44 |
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| 45 | <sect2>
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| 46 | <title>Installation of <application><acronym>GDBM</acronym></application></title>
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| 47 |
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| 48 | <para>Install <application><acronym>GDBM</acronym></application> by running the following commands:
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| 49 | </para>
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| 50 |
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| 51 | <screen><userinput><command>./configure --prefix=/usr &&
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| 52 | make &&
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| 53 | make BINOWN=root BINGRP=root install</command></userinput></screen>
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| 54 |
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| 55 | <para>In addition, you may need to install the <application>DBM</application>
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| 56 | and <application>NDBM</application> compatibility headers since some
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| 57 | applications look for these older dbm routines.</para>
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| 58 |
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| 59 | <screen><userinput><command>make BINOWN=root BINGRP=root install-compat</command></userinput></screen>
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| 60 |
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| 61 | </sect2>
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| 62 |
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| 63 | <sect2>
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| 64 | <title>Command explanations</title>
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| 65 |
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[82f09cd1] | 66 | <para><command>make BINOWN=root BINGRP=root install</command>: This
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| 67 | command overrides the <varname>BINOWN</varname> and
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| 68 | <varname>BINGRP</varname> variables in the <filename>Makefile</filename>
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| 69 | changing ownership of the installed files to root instead of the bin
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| 70 | user.</para>
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[52d29f7] | 71 |
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| 72 | </sect2>
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| 73 |
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| 74 | <sect2>
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| 75 | <title>Contents</title>
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| 76 |
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| 77 | <para>The <application><acronym>GDBM</acronym></application> package
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| 78 | contains <filename class="libraryfile">libgdbm</filename> libraries.</para>
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| 79 |
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| 80 | </sect2>
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| 81 |
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| 82 | <sect2><title>Description</title>
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| 83 |
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| 84 | <sect3><title>gdbm libraries</title>
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| 85 | <para><filename class="libraryfile">libgdbm</filename> libraries contain functions that perform
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| 86 | database routines using extendible hashing.</para></sect3>
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| 87 |
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| 88 |
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| 89 | </sect2>
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[777e407] | 90 |
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| 91 | </sect1>
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| 92 |
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