1 <sect2><title> </title><para> </para></sect2>
4 <title>Installation of Net-tools</title>
6 <para>If you don't know what to answer to all the questions asked during
7 the <userinput>make</userinput> phase, then just accept the defaults, which
8 will be just fine in the majority of the cases. What you are asked here
9 are a bunch of questions relating to the kind of network protocols that you
10 have enabled in your kernel.</para>
12 <para>The default answers will enable the tools from this package to work
13 with the most common protocols such as TCP, PPP and a bunch of others. You
14 still need to actually enable these protocols in the kernel. What you do
15 here is merely telling the programs to be able to use those protocols, but
16 it's up to the kernel to make them available to the system.</para>
18 <para>Compile the package:</para>
20 <para><screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen></para>
22 <para>If you intend to accept the default settings, you may skip
23 the questions generated by <emphasis>make</emphasis> by runing
24 <userinput>yes "" | make</userinput> instead.</para>
26 <para>Finish installing the package:</para>
28 <para><screen><userinput>make update</userinput></screen></para>
30 <para>The <emphasis>update</emphasis> option to <userinput>make</userinput>
31 works similarly to the <emphasis>install</emphasis> option, with one
32 exception: it doesn't make backups of files it's replacing.</para>
34 <para>If you decide to reinstall this package at some point in the
35 future, a <userinput>make update</userinput> won't backup all the files
36 from a previous net-tools installation.</para>