Diogenes Network
Program installation in Linux
This instruction uses for help to very new to install program in LInux in the
text mode (text terminal).
Fist step in setup - otain right of super-user root.
You can: logon into system as root or execute command "su -",
from your regular account (login).
Uncompesing an archive
To uncompress file such as *.bz2 or *.tar.bz2 use command:
bzip2 -d your_file.bz2 (your_file.tar.bz2)
To uncompress file such as *.gz or *.tar.gz use command:
gunzip your_file.gz (your_file.tar.gz)
Unpack TAR-archive (.tar). To unpack archive use command:
tar -xf your_file.tar
Program setup
Usage script DNsetup (Deogenes Network setup).
If your pakage includes file DNsetup.sh, just run this script.
Usage RPM. If you have *.rpm file use command:
rpm -ivh your-file.rpm
Compilation. If you have to compile source code that contains files
configure and Makefile, you have to do following two steps
inside sub-directory where they located:
To configure source code for you system by command:
./configure
To compile (make executable code) with command: make
Set file into appropriate places: make install
For final setting you can need to edit a configuration files (.conf).
The good known style is creating copy from original file with adding
extention .org to the end of original name (prog-name.conf.org).
It will create a chance to step back on fealure.
Most of the program has own manual-file for help to users.
To call this halp use command:
man prigram-name.