BOOK/chapter06/findutils.xml

   1 <sect1 id="ch-system-findutils" xreflabel="Findutils">
   2 <title>Installing Findutils-&findutils-version;</title>
   3 <?dbhtml filename="findutils.html" dir="chapter06"?>
   4
   5 <para>The Findutils package contains programs to find files. The finding is
   6 done either by doing a live recursive search through a directory tree, or by
   7 consulting a previously set up database.</para>
   8
   9 <screen>&buildtime; &findutils-time;
  10 &diskspace; &findutils-compsize;</screen>
  11
  12 &aa-findutils-down;
  13 &aa-findutils-dep;
  14
  15 <sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>
  16
  17 <sect2>
  18 <title>Installation of Findutils</title>
  19
  20 <para>Prepare Findutils for compilation:</para>
  21
  22 <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib/locate</userinput></screen>
  23
  24 <para>The default location for the <emphasis>locate</emphasis> database is
  25 <filename>/usr/var</filename>. To make the location of this database
  26 FHS-compliant, add <emphasis>--localstatedir=/var/lib/misc</emphasis>
  27 to the above configure options.</para>
  28
  29 <para>Compile the package:</para>
  30
  31 <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
  32
  33 <para>This package has a test suite available which can perform a number of
  34 checks to ensure it built correctly.  Should you choose to run it, the
  35 following command will do so:</para>
  36
  37 <screen><userinput>make check</userinput></screen>
  38
  39 <para>And install the package:</para>
  40
  41 <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
  42
  43 </sect2>
  44
  45 &aa-findutils-shortdesc;
  46 &aa-findutils-desc;
  47
  48 </sect1>
  49