BOOK/chapter06/gzip-inst.xml

   1 <sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>
   2
   3 <sect2>
   4 <title>Installation of Gzip</title>
   5
   6 <para>A buffer overflow may occur if <userinput>gzip</userinput>
   7 encounters a filename over 1020 characters in length. Apply the
   8 patch to fix this problem:</para>
   9
  10 <para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../gzip-&gzip-patch-version;.patch</userinput></screen></para>
  11
  12 <para>Prepare Gzip to be compiled:</para>
  13
  14 <para><screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen></para>
  15
  16 <para>Change the default installation directory for Gzip so it will
  17 be installed in the <filename class="directory">/bin</filename>
  18 directory:</para>
  19
  20 <para><screen><userinput>cp gzexe.in{,.backup} &amp;&amp;
  21 sed 's%"BINDIR"%/bin%' gzexe.in.backup &gt; gzexe.in</userinput></screen></para>
  22
  23 <para>Continue with compiling the package:</para>
  24
  25 <para><screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen></para>
  26
  27 <para>Install the package:</para>
  28
  29 <para><screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen></para>
  30
  31 <para>Move the Gzip binaries to the <filename
  32 class="directory">/bin</filename> directory:</para>
  33
  34 <para><screen><userinput>mv /usr/bin/gzip /bin &amp;&amp;
  35 rm /usr/bin/{gunzip,zcat} &amp;&amp;
  36 ln -s gzip /bin/gunzip &amp;&amp;
  37 ln -s gzip /bin/zcat &amp;&amp;
  38 ln -s gunzip /bin/uncompress</userinput></screen></para>
  39
  40 </sect2>