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Last change on this file since 0bb2989 was 74b6e0c, checked in by Jeremy Utley <jeremy@…>, 21 years ago

Corrected text in gzip instructions - proper explanation of the reason for the sed command - Bug 551

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1<sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>
2
3<sect2>
4<title>Installation of Gzip</title>
5
6<para>Prepare Gzip for compilation:</para>
7
8<para><screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen></para>
9
10<para>The gzexe program has the location of the gzip binary hardcoded into
11it. Because we later change the location of this binary, the following
12command will place the new location into the gzexe binary.</para>
13
14<para><screen><userinput>cp gzexe.in{,.backup}
15sed 's%"BINDIR"%/bin%' gzexe.in.backup &gt; gzexe.in</userinput></screen></para>
16
17<para>Compile the package:</para>
18
19<para><screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen></para>
20
21<para>Install the package:</para>
22
23<para><screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen></para>
24
25<para>And move the programs to the <filename
26class="directory">/bin</filename> directory:</para>
27
28<para><screen><userinput>mv /usr/bin/gzip /bin
29rm /usr/bin/{gunzip,zcat}
30ln -s gzip /bin/gunzip
31ln -s gzip /bin/zcat
32ln -s gunzip /bin/uncompress</userinput></screen></para>
33
34</sect2>
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