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01/19/2005 10:38:21 PM (19 years ago)
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Randy McMurchy <randy@…>
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Added indexing tags to blfs-bootscripts instructions; misc. tagging and grammar corrections

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@3317 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

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    2222<para>When you want to install a package to a location other than
    23 <filename class='directory'>/</filename>, or <filename class='directory'>/usr</filename>, you are installing
     23<filename class='directory'>/</filename>, or
     24<filename class='directory'>/usr</filename>, you are installing
    2425outside the default environment settings on most machines.  The following
    2526examples should assist you in determining how to correct this situation.
     
    3031<listitem><para>Expand the <envar>PATH</envar> to include
    3132<filename class='directory'>$PREFIX/bin</filename>.</para></listitem>
     33
    3234<listitem><para>Expand the <envar>PATH</envar> for root to include
    3335<filename class='directory'>$PREFIX/sbin</filename>.</para></listitem>
     36
    3437<listitem><para>Add <filename class='directory'>$PREFIX/lib</filename>
    3538to <filename>/etc/ld.so.conf</filename> or expand
    3639<envar>LD_LIBRARY_PATH</envar> to include it. Before using the latter option,
    3740check out <ulink url="http://www.visi.com/~barr/ldpath.html"/>. If you
    38 modify <filename>/etc/ld.so.conf</filename> remember to update
    39 <filename>/etc/ld.so.cache</filename> by executing <command>ldconfig</command>.</para></listitem>
     41modify <filename>/etc/ld.so.conf</filename>, remember to update
     42<filename>/etc/ld.so.cache</filename> by executing <command>ldconfig</command>
     43as the root user.</para></listitem>
     44
    4045<listitem><para>Add <filename class='directory'>$PREFIX/man</filename>
    41 to <filename>/etc/man.conf</filename> or expand <envar>MANPATH</envar>.</para></listitem>
     46to <filename>/etc/man.conf</filename> or expand <envar>MANPATH</envar>.</para>
     47</listitem>
     48
    4249<listitem><para>Add <filename class='directory'>$PREFIX/info</filename>
    4350to <envar>INFOPATH</envar>.</para></listitem>
     51
    4452<listitem><para>Add <filename
    4553class='directory'>$PREFIX/lib/pkgconfig</filename> to
    4654<envar>PKG_CONFIG_PATH</envar>.</para></listitem>
     55
    4756<listitem><para>Add <filename
    48 class='directory'>$PREFIX/include</filename> to <envar>CPPFLAGS</envar> when compiling packages
    49 that depend on the package you installed.</para></listitem>
     57class='directory'>$PREFIX/include</filename> to <envar>CPPFLAGS</envar> when
     58compiling packages that depend on the package you installed.</para></listitem>
    5059</itemizedlist>
    5160
     
    5665
    5766<listitem><para>If you know the name of the package, then search FreshMeat for
    58 at <ulink url="http://freshmeat.net/"/>. Also search Google at
     67it at <ulink url="http://freshmeat.net/"/>. Also search Google at
    5968<ulink url="http://google.com/"/>. Sometimes a search for the rpm at
    6069<ulink url="http://rpmfind.net/"/> or the deb at
    6170<ulink url="http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_packages"/> can also
    62 lead to the website for the package.</para></listitem>
     71lead to a link to the package.</para></listitem>
    6372
    6473<listitem><para>If you know the name of the executable, but not the package
     
    8796<listitem><para>If you are having a problem compiling the package, try
    8897searching the lfs archives at <ulink url="http://search.linuxfromscratch.org/"/>
    89 for the error or if that fails try searching google. If everything else fails,
     98for the error or if that fails try searching Google. If everything else fails,
    9099try the blfs support mailing-list/news-server.</para></listitem>
    91100
     
    93102
    94103<tip><para>If you have found a package that is only available in .deb or .rpm
    95 format, there are two small scripts rpm2targz and deb2targz that are available
    96 at <ulink url="&downloads-project;/deb2targz.tar.bz2"/> and <ulink
    97 url="&downloads-project;/rpm2targz.tar.bz2"/> to convert the archives into a
    98 simple tar.gz format.</para></tip>
     104format, there are two small scripts, <command>rpm2targz</command> and
     105<command>deb2targz</command> that are available at
     106<ulink url="&downloads-project;/deb2targz.tar.bz2"/> and
     107<ulink url="&downloads-project;/rpm2targz.tar.bz2"/> to convert the archives
     108into a simple <filename>tar.gz</filename> format.</para></tip>
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    100110</sect1>
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