lfs-book/chapter06/bzip2-inst.xml

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<title>Installation of Bzip2</title>

<para>
Install Bzip2 by running the following commands:
</para>

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	<userinput>make -f Makefile-libbz2_so &amp;&amp;</userinput>
	<userinput>make bzip2recover libbz2.a &amp;&amp;</userinput>
	<userinput>cp bzip2-shared /bin/bzip2 &amp;&amp;</userinput>
	<userinput>cp bzip2recover /bin &amp;&amp;</userinput>
	<userinput>cp bzip2.1 /usr/share/man/man1 &amp;&amp;</userinput>
	<userinput>cp bzlib.h /usr/include &amp;&amp;</userinput>
	<userinput>cp -a libbz2.so* libbz2.a /lib &amp;&amp;</userinput>
	<userinput>rm /usr/lib/libbz2.a &amp;&amp;</userinput>
	<userinput>cd /bin &amp;&amp;</userinput>
	<userinput>ln -sf bzip2 bunzip2 &amp;&amp;</userinput>
	<userinput>ln -sf bzip2 bzcat &amp;&amp;</userinput>
	<userinput>cd /usr/share/man/man1 &amp;&amp;</userinput>
	<userinput>ln -s bzip2.1 bunzip2.1 &amp;&amp;</userinput>
	<userinput>ln -s bzip2.1 bzcat.1 &amp;&amp;</userinput>
	<userinput>ln -s bzip2.1 bzip2recover.1</userinput>
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<para>
Although it's not strictly a part of a basic LFS system it's worth
mentioning that a patch for Tar can be downloaded which enables the tar
program to compress and uncompress using bzip2/bunzip2 easily. With a
plain tar a user has to use constructions like bzcat file.tar.bz|tar
xv or tar --use-compress-prog=bunzip2 -xvf file.tar.bz2 to use bzip2 and
bunzip2 with tar. This patch gives the -y option so a user can unpack a
Bzip2 archive with tar xvfy file.tar.bz2. Applying this patch will be
mentioned later on when the Tar package is re-installed.
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