BOOK/chapter06/findutils-inst.xml

   1 <sect2>
   2 <title>Installing Findutils</title>
   3
   4 <para>Before Findutils is installed the findutils patch file has
   5 to be unpacked.</para>
   6
   7 <para>Install Findutils by running the following commands:</para>
   8
   9 <para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../findutils-4.1.patch &amp;&amp;
  10 ./configure --prefix=/usr &amp;&amp;
  11 make &amp;&amp;
  12 make libexecdir=/usr/bin install</userinput></screen></para>
  13
  14 </sect2>
  15 <sect2>
  16 <title>FHS compliance notes</title>
  17
  18 <para>By default, the location of the updatedb database is in /usr/var.
  19 If you would rather be FHS compliant, you may wish to use another
  20 location.  The following commands use the database file
  21 <filename>/var/lib/misc/locatedb</filename> which is FHS compliant.</para>
  22
  23 <para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../findutils-4.1.patch &amp;&amp;
  24 ./configure --prefix=/usr &amp;&amp;
  25 make localstatedir=/var/lib/misc &amp;&amp;
  26 make localstatedir=/var/lib/misc libexecdir=/usr/bin install</userinput></screen></para>
  27
  28 </sect2>