lfs-book/chapter06/gzip-inst.xml

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<title>Installation of Gzip</title>

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

<para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../gzip-&gzip-patch-version;.patch &amp;&amp;
./configure --prefix=/usr &amp;&amp;
cp gzexe.in{,.backup} &amp;&amp;
sed 's%"BINDIR"%/bin%' gzexe.in.backup &gt; gzexe.in &amp;&amp;
make &amp;&amp;
make install &amp;&amp;
mv /usr/bin/gzip /bin &amp;&amp;
rm /usr/bin/{gunzip,zcat} &amp;&amp;
ln -s gzip /bin/gunzip &amp;&amp;
ln -s gzip /bin/zcat &amp;&amp;
ln -s gunzip /bin/uncompress</userinput></screen></para>

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