diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'INSTALL')
| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL | 73 |
1 files changed, 73 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@ +The preferred way to install wipe is to use something like stow, and put +it in /usr/local/. + +Debian (dpkg): + +Build an rpm, then use alien to make a deb. I have removed the Debian +directory, since (my version of) wipe is not part of Debian. + +Redhat (rpm): + +1. tar jxvf wipe*.tar.bz2 || (bunzip2 -c wipe*.tar.bz2 | tar xv) + cd wipe*/; cp wipe.spec /usr/src/rpm/SPECS/ + cp wipe*.tar.bz2 /usr/src/rpm/SOURCES/ + +2. cd /usr/src/rpm/; rpm -ba SPECS/wipe.spec + +3. rpm -ivh RPMS/`find . | grep -v noarch`/*wipe*.rpm + ls SRPMS/ + + to build a source rpm: + + rpm --rebuild *wipe*.src.rpm + +Tarball: + +to install as root: + + ./configure; make install + +or to install on a per user basis: + + ./configure; make install_home + +to uninstall: + + make uninstall +or + make -f Makefile.in remove + +from ./configure --help: + +--enable and --with options recognized: + --enable-wall compile with -ansi -pedantic -Wall -Werror + --enable-debug compile with -g + --enable-efence same as debug, but link the binary with the + electric fence + +make targets: + +make: + compile standard wipe binary w/ -O3 + +make debug: + same as ./configure --enable-debug + +make efence: + same as ./configure --enable-efence + +make install: + you must be root to run this. this will install all man pages + and put the compiled and stripped wipe binary in /usr/local/bin + +make install_home: + install wipe for personal use in ~/bin/. does not install man + pages. + +make info: + display file info and link data for wipe binary. + +make clean: + clean binaries from source tree. + +see README and LICENSE for more information. |