Installing Fileutils-4.1

Estimated build time:           0.68 SBU
Estimated required disk space:  17 MB

Contents of Fileutils

Last checked against version 4.1.

Fileutils is a package containing basic file manipulation programs. Included are programs to list and create directories, update timestamps, change permissions and so forth.

Fileutils installs the following files:

Program Files

chgrp, chmod, chown, cp, dd, df, dir, dircolors, du, install, ln, ls, mkdir, mkfifo, mknod, mv, rm, rmdir, shred, sync, touch and vdir

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Fileutils Installation Dependencies

Last checked against version 4.1.

Bash: sh
Binutils: ar, as, ld, ranlib
Diffutils: cmp
Fileutils: chmod, cp, install, ln, ls, mkdir, mv, rm, rmdir
Gettext: msgfmt, xgettext
Gcc: cc, cc1, collect2, cpp0, gcc
Grep: egrep, fgrep, grep
Make: make
Perl: perl
Sed: sed
Sh-utils: basename, echo, expr, hostname, sleep, uname
Texinfo: install-info
Textutils: cat, tr

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Installation of Fileutils

Prepare Fileutils to be compiled:

./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin

Continue with compiling the package:

make

Install the package:

make install

Some packages hardwire the path to the install program as /usr/bin/install. Create a symlink to account for this:

ln -s ../../bin/install /usr/bin