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  1. <sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>
  2. <sect2>
  3. <title>Installing Findutils</title>
  4. <para>Prepare Findutils for compilation:</para>
  5. <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/bin</userinput></screen>
  6. <para>By default, the location of the updatedb database is in
  7. <filename>/usr/var</filename>. To make the location of
  8. <filename>/var/lib/misc/locatedb</filename> file FHS compliant, pass the
  9. <emphasis>--localstatedir=/var/lib/misc</emphasis> option to
  10. <userinput>configure</userinput>.</para>
  11. <para>Compile the package:</para>
  12. <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
  13. <para>This package has a test suite available which can perform a number of
  14. checks to ensure it built correctly. Should you choose to run it, the
  15. following command will do so:</para>
  16. <screen><userinput>make check</userinput></screen>
  17. <para>And install the package:</para>
  18. <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
  19. </sect2>