lfs-book/chapter06/nettools-inst.xml

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<title>Installation of Net-tools</title>

<para>Install Net-tools by running the following commands:</para>

<para><screen><userinput>make &amp;&amp;</userinput>
<userinput>make install</userinput></screen></para>

<para>Net-tools <userinput>hostname</userinput> replaces that which was
originally installed by sh-utils.  Sometimes the sh-utils version gets
left behind as /bin/hostname.old so you may wish to remove it by running 
<userinput>rm -f /bin/hostname.old</userinput></para>

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