Re: HTMLDOC


Subject: Re: HTMLDOC
From: Patrick Callahan (pac1@tiac.net)
Date: Thu Sep 06 2001 - 05:39:27 MDT


On Thursday 06 September 2001 01:01, you wrote:
> I'm brand new to Linux so I have no clue

We've all been there at one point or another.

> if it is
> possible to compile HTMLDOC from http://www.easysw.com
> to work with YDL .

Most things build and work just fine if you obtain the sources and build them
using the instructions in the README or INSTALL files which are usually
found in source distributions.

< If yes, please help show me how.

The README and INSTALL files for a package usually found in the top level
of the distribution's source directory. You have to decompress the
downloaded sources to see these files.

sources usually come as .tar.gz files or .tar.bz2 files.

I usually keep original archives in a subdirectories of /downloads

To expand the archives, I su to root and cd to /usr/src. As an alternative
you could change the permissions on /usr/src to allow you to create
subdirectories and build software as an ordinary user. I've found that just
about everything will build in /usr/src. A few packages won't build anywhere
else unless you use additional configuration options.

The commands
           cd /usr/src
           su root
           tar -xzvf /downloads/subdir/archive-filename.tar.gz
           cd archive-filename

or
           cd /usr/src
           su root
           cp /downloads/subdir/archive-filename.tar.bz2 ./
           bzip2 -d archive-filename.tar.bz2
           tar -xvf archive-filename.tar
           cd archive-filename

get you into the source directory where you can

           cat README
           cat INSTALL

 Always read the README and INSTALL files if they are available.
Some README or INSTALL files will tell you to build in a different directory.
If they do, re-expand the archive in the other directory and remove the one
in /usr/src.

Usually the directions contain the following commands to build and install
the package, but some packages are different .

           ./configure
           make
           make install

There's a few things you might want to avoid building and installing without
careful planning or adequate backup. These include

glibc
gcc and other tools used for building software
XFree86
window managers
desktop managers like kde and gnome

Not that they can't be built and installed, but you need to be careful or
you'll render your installation unusable and have to reinstall.
I have an expirimental partition where I do this kind of thing. If anything
goes wrong, I can reboot to the regular partition and start over with a fresh
copy. If everything goes ok, I switch to the new partition. If you're
going to do this you should create a separate partition for /home. I keep a
separate partition for /downloads as well.

> Thank you.

You're welcome.

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Nope.

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I already get too much e-mail. You can find me on irc.debian.org #mklinux
occasionally.



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