BOOK/chapter06/ed-inst.xml

   1 <sect2>
   2 <title>Installation of Ed</title>
   3
   4 <para>This package requires its patch to be applied before you can
   5 install it. Make sure it's unpacked before running the installation
   6 commands.</para>
   7
   8 <para>Ed isn't something you would personally use. It's installed here
   9 because it can be used by the patch program if you encounter an ed-based patch
  10 file. This happens rarely because diff-based patches are preferred these
  11 days.</para>
  12
  13 <para>Install Ed by running the following commands:</para>
  14
  15 <para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../ed-&ed-patch-version;.patch &amp;&amp;
  16 ./configure --prefix=/usr &amp;&amp;
  17 make &amp;&amp;
  18 make install &amp;&amp;
  19 mv /usr/bin/{ed,red} /bin</userinput></screen></para>
  20
  21 </sect2>
  22