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  1. <sect1 id="ch-system-net-tools" xreflabel="Net-tools">
  2. <title>Installing Net-tools-&net-tools-version;</title>
  3. <?dbhtml filename="net-tools.html" dir="chapter06"?>
  4. <para>The Net-tools package contains programs for basic networking.</para>
  5. <screen>&buildtime; &net-tools-time;
  6. &diskspace; &net-tools-compsize;</screen>
  7. &aa-nettools-down;
  8. &aa-nettools-dep;
  9. <sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>
  10. <sect2>
  11. <title>Installation of Net-tools</title>
  12. <para>If you don't know what to answer to all the questions asked during the
  13. <command>make config</command> phase below, then just accept the defaults.
  14. This will be just fine in the majority of cases. What you're asked here is a
  15. bunch of questions about which network protocols you've enabled in your
  16. kernel. The default answers will enable the tools from this package to work
  17. with the most common protocols: TCP, PPP, and several others. You still need
  18. to actually enable these protocols in the kernel -- what you do here is merely
  19. telling the package to include support for those protocols in its programs,
  20. but it's up to the kernel to make the protocols available.</para>
  21. <para>First fix a small syntax problem in the sources of the mii-tool
  22. program:</para>
  23. <screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&net-tools-mii-patch;</userinput></screen>
  24. <para>Now prepare Net-tools for compilation with:</para>
  25. <screen><userinput>make config</userinput></screen>
  26. <para>If you intend to accept the default settings, you may skip the
  27. questions generated by <command>make config</command> by running
  28. <userinput>yes "" | make config</userinput> instead.</para>
  29. <para>Compile the package:</para>
  30. <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
  31. <para>And install it:</para>
  32. <screen><userinput>make update</userinput></screen>
  33. </sect2>
  34. &aa-nettools-shortdesc;
  35. &aa-nettools-desc;
  36. </sect1>